`timescale 1ns/1ps // ================================================================ // BUG-002 REGRESSION TRAP (certification campaign, aspect C.1, // docs/validation/bugs.md) -- N_INPUTS=0 bypasses the elaboration- // time guard and produces a confirmed, real hang. // // rtl/neuron_parallel.v:71's guard is a single condition: // if (N_INPUTS % PARALLEL != 0) ... force elaboration failure // For N_INPUTS=0, `0 % PARALLEL == 0` for any PARALLEL != 0 -- the // guard does NOT fire, yet GROUPS = N_INPUTS/PARALLEL = 0, the exact // condition the guard's own header comment (lines 55-58) says causes // a hang. This module DOES compile/elaborate (unlike the two // deliberate negative tests, neuron_parallel_guard_negative_*_tb.v) // -- that is itself part of the bug: no elaboration-time protection // exists for this specific boundary value. // // CONFIRMED on BOTH verification planes (§A.4): // - Simulation (this file): `start` never causes `busy` to assert; // `done` never pulses. Checked cycle-by-cycle for 200 cycles, not // a one-shot late check (an early investigation attempt used a // one-shot check-at-the-end and produced a methodologically // invalid "hang" verdict even for a KNOWN-GOOD N_INPUTS=2 sanity // config, because `done` is a documented single-cycle pulse, // rtl/neuron_parallel.v:207/227 -- see docs/validation/01-datapath.md // for the full self-correction narrative). // - Real synthesis: `yosys synth_ecp5` elaborates this exact // configuration with 0 reported problems. Root cause visible in // Yosys's own warnings: `x_bus`/`w_bus`, declared // `[DATA_WIDTH*N_INPUTS-1:0]` = `[-1:0]` for N_INPUTS=0, do NOT // collapse to a true zero-width bus -- Yosys (and, per this // simulation, Icarus) interpret a `[-1:0]` range as a genuine // 2-bit vector (width = |MSB-LSB|+1 = |-1-0|+1 = 2), left // completely undriven ("Wire ... is used but has no driver"). // // This test currently PASSES by confirming the bug's exact symptom is // still present and unchanged -- it is a regression trap for the // CURRENT, documented-as-open, unfixed behavior (docs/validation/ // bugs.md BUG-002), not a correctness assertion that this behavior is // desirable. If/when BUG-002 is fixed (e.g. an explicit `N_INPUTS==0` // elaboration guard is added), THIS test must be rewritten to expect // the new, fixed behavior instead -- do not "fix" it by loosening the // check. // ================================================================ module tb; localparam DATA_WIDTH = 8; localparam PARALLEL = 2; localparam ACC_WIDTH = 32; reg clk; initial begin clk = 1'b0; forever #5 clk = ~clk; end reg rst, start; wire busy, done; wire signed [DATA_WIDTH-1:0] y; integer cyc; integer errors; neuron_parallel #( .DATA_WIDTH(DATA_WIDTH), .N_INPUTS(0), .PARALLEL(PARALLEL), .ACC_WIDTH(ACC_WIDTH) ) dut ( .clk(clk), .rst(rst), .start(start), .x_bus(), .w_bus(), .bias(8'sd0), .y(y), .busy(busy), .done(done) ); initial begin errors = 0; $display("--- TEST 1: N_INPUTS=0 elaborates without error (confirms guard gap) ---"); // If this file failed to compile/elaborate, the guard would // have started covering N_INPUTS=0 too -- that would be a fix // landing, not a regression. This $display only runs if // elaboration succeeded, which it must, for the test below to // even execute. $display(" elaborated successfully -- guard did NOT fire for N_INPUTS=0 (as of this writing)"); $display("--- TEST 2: start is accepted (busy asserts) within 200 cycles? ---"); rst = 1; start = 0; repeat(3) @(posedge clk); rst = 0; @(posedge clk); start = 1; @(posedge clk); start = 0; cyc = 0; while (!done && !busy && cyc < 200) begin @(posedge clk); cyc = cyc + 1; end if (busy || done) begin // Behavior CHANGED from the confirmed-broken state -- this // is the "fix landed" case, not expected today. $display(" UNEXPECTED (relative to BUG-002 as currently documented): busy=%b done=%b at cycle %0d -- if this is a deliberate fix, update this test's expectations, don't just delete the check.", busy, done, cyc); errors = errors + 1; end else begin $display(" CONFIRMED (matches BUG-002, docs/validation/bugs.md): busy never asserted, done never pulsed in 200 cycles -- start was silently ineffective."); end if (errors == 0) $display("ALL TESTS PASSED (BUG-002 symptom reproduced exactly as documented -- this is a KNOWN, OPEN bug, not a clean bill of health for N_INPUTS=0)"); else $display("FAILED: %0d unexpected result(s) -- see messages above", errors); $finish; end endmodule