`timescale 1ns/1ps // ================================================================ // FPGA-Neural V2 -- Prefetch Engine (M4, docs/v2-description.md §13; // word-level burst rewrite post-M10 -- see hardware/v2/logs/ // decisions.log DEC-0015) // // Fetches ONE tile (P_IN activation bytes + P_IN weight bytes) from // the WORD-level Memory Backend Interface, P_IN/2 sixteen-bit // transactions per array instead of P_IN single-byte ones. // // WHY: hardware/v1/rtl/int8_memory_access.v (the byte-level backend // this engine originally sat on) converts every 8-bit logical request // into a FULL 16-bit PSRAM word access internally (mem_addr <= addr // >> 1, one byte lane selected via lb_n/ub_n) -- so a byte-at-a-time // fetch was ALREADY paying for two bytes of real PSRAM bandwidth per // transaction while only using one. This engine now talks directly to // hardware/v1/rtl/memory_interface.v's own 16-bit word interface // (skipping int8_memory_access.v entirely -- both are frozen V1 files, // unmodified either way, §1/§34; V2 is simply choosing to reuse the // lower layer instead of the byte-splitting one on top of it, the // same "reuse what fits" precedent already set by slot_mem_arbiter.v // not reusing hardware/v1/rtl/mem_arbiter.v verbatim). psram_controller.v's // own real page-mode support (already implemented, unmodified) then // serves consecutive same-page word reads faster than a cold access -- // this engine's job is simply to stop discarding half of every word it // already paid for, and to halve the number of real backend // round-trips needed per tile. // // CONSTRAINT: P_IN must be even, and x_addr/w_addr must be word- // aligned (even BYTE addresses) -- each 16-bit transaction covers // BYTE addresses {addr, addr+1} as {low byte, high byte} (matches // int8_memory_access.v's own addr[0] convention exactly, replicated // here since that module is no longer in the datapath). A host/loader // placing X/W tile arrays at even byte offsets (already true of every // address used in this project's own testbenches) satisfies this // with no special handling. // // The double-buffering strategy itself (§13) remains memory_manager.v's // responsibility -- unchanged by this rewrite. // ================================================================ module prefetch_engine #( parameter DATA_WIDTH = 8, parameter P_IN = 8, parameter ADDR_WIDTH = 23 )( input wire clk, input wire rst, input wire fetch_start, input wire [ADDR_WIDTH-1:0] x_addr, // BYTE address, word-aligned input wire [ADDR_WIDTH-1:0] w_addr, // BYTE address, word-aligned output reg fetch_busy, output reg fetch_done, // one-cycle pulse output reg signed [DATA_WIDTH*P_IN-1:0] tile_x, output reg signed [DATA_WIDTH*P_IN-1:0] tile_w, // ---- word-level Memory Backend Interface (matches // hardware/v1/rtl/memory_interface.v's contract exactly) ---- output reg mem_req, output reg mem_wr, output reg [ADDR_WIDTH-1:0] mem_addr, // WORD address output reg [15:0] mem_wdata, output reg mem_lb_n, output reg mem_ub_n, input wire [15:0] mem_rdata, input wire mem_ready ); localparam ST_IDLE = 2'd0; localparam ST_READ_X = 2'd1; localparam ST_READ_W = 2'd2; localparam ST_DONE = 2'd3; localparam WORDS_PER_TILE = P_IN/2; localparam WIW = $clog2(WORDS_PER_TILE+1); reg [1:0] state; reg [WIW-1:0] word_idx; wire [ADDR_WIDTH-1:0] x_word_base = x_addr[ADDR_WIDTH-1:1]; wire [ADDR_WIDTH-1:0] w_word_base = w_addr[ADDR_WIDTH-1:1]; always @(posedge clk) begin if (rst) begin state <= ST_IDLE; word_idx <= 0; fetch_busy <= 1'b0; fetch_done <= 1'b0; mem_req <= 1'b0; mem_wr <= 1'b0; mem_addr <= {ADDR_WIDTH{1'b0}}; mem_wdata <= 16'h0000; mem_lb_n <= 1'b1; mem_ub_n <= 1'b1; end else begin mem_req <= 1'b0; fetch_done <= 1'b0; case (state) ST_IDLE: begin if (fetch_start) begin fetch_busy <= 1'b1; word_idx <= 0; mem_req <= 1'b1; mem_wr <= 1'b0; mem_addr <= x_word_base; mem_lb_n <= 1'b0; // both byte lanes -- fetch the whole word mem_ub_n <= 1'b0; state <= ST_READ_X; end end ST_READ_X: begin if (mem_ready) begin tile_x[word_idx*16 +: 16] <= mem_rdata; if (word_idx == WORDS_PER_TILE[WIW-1:0] - 1'b1) begin word_idx <= 0; mem_req <= 1'b1; mem_wr <= 1'b0; mem_addr <= w_word_base; mem_lb_n <= 1'b0; mem_ub_n <= 1'b0; state <= ST_READ_W; end else begin word_idx <= word_idx + 1'b1; mem_req <= 1'b1; mem_wr <= 1'b0; mem_addr <= x_word_base + word_idx + 1'b1; mem_lb_n <= 1'b0; mem_ub_n <= 1'b0; end end end ST_READ_W: begin if (mem_ready) begin tile_w[word_idx*16 +: 16] <= mem_rdata; if (word_idx == WORDS_PER_TILE[WIW-1:0] - 1'b1) begin state <= ST_DONE; end else begin word_idx <= word_idx + 1'b1; mem_req <= 1'b1; mem_wr <= 1'b0; mem_addr <= w_word_base + word_idx + 1'b1; mem_lb_n <= 1'b0; mem_ub_n <= 1'b0; end end end ST_DONE: begin fetch_busy <= 1'b0; fetch_done <= 1'b1; state <= ST_IDLE; end default: state <= ST_IDLE; endcase end end endmodule