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micheleandClaude Sonnet 5 81a9619214 chore: remove root-level V1 duplicates, superseded by hardware/v1/ freeze
hardware/v1/ was created (dc0b331) as a frozen snapshot of the V1
project that then lived at the repo root (rtl/, sim/, synth/, tools/,
docs/). Root received zero further commits to those files after the
freeze -- confirmed byte-identical to the hardware/v1/ copy for every
file removed here. Root was the "before", hardware/v1/ is the
curated, canonical "after".

Removed (all verified exact-hash duplicates of hardware/v1/ content):
  - rtl/ (20 files, 100% covered by hardware/v1/rtl/)
  - tools/{netasm,pinout,run_regression.py,flash_catalog,validation,
    fpga_benchmark.py} (19 files, 100% covered by hardware/v1/tools/;
    tools/neural_sim/ kept -- unique, post-freeze, no counterpart)
  - sim/*.v (47 testbenches, 100% covered by hardware/v1/sim/; the
    ~38 remaining sim/ entries are compiled binaries and .vcd
    waveform dumps, left as a separate cleanup decision)
  - synth/ecp5/{p2,p4,p8,post_fix_verify} (25 files, exact duplicates
    of hardware/v1/synthesis/; the other ~84 synth/ecp5/* experiment
    build directories are historical artifacts never carried into the
    freeze, left as a separate decision)
  - WORKLOG.md (duplicate of hardware/v1/docs/WORKLOG.md)
  - docs/{FPGA-Neural-Datapatch-Benchmark,FPGA-Neural-Hardware-Design,
    FPGA-NeuralNetwork-Engine}.md, docs/validation/*.md (18 files),
    docs/FPGA-Neural-Datasheet-{EN,IT}.pdf -- all exact duplicates of
    hardware/v1/docs/ content
  - hardware/v1/docs/DatasheetLatex/ (24 files) -- exact duplicate of
    hardware/v2/docs/datasheet/files/docs/datasheet/en/ (discovered
    during this audit; not the same DatasheetLatex already removed
    from hardware/v2/docs/ in an earlier commit)

Moved (genuine, unique, post-freeze V2 content -- not duplicated
anywhere, just living in the wrong/legacy root docs/ location):
  - docs/architecture/*.md -> hardware/v2/docs/architecture/
  - docs/pinouts.md, docs/FPGA_NEURAL_V2_DATASHEET.md,
    docs/FPGA_NEURAL_V2_SCHEMATIC.md,
    docs/FPGA-Neural-V2-Datasheet-EN.pdf -> hardware/v2/docs/

Left untouched (separate decisions, not part of this cleanup):
  - docs/FPGA-Neural-Flash-Subsystem-Verification.md, docs/
    v2-description.md -- orphaned root-only content, no duplicate
    found anywhere, but also not part of the reviewed plan
  - synth/ecp5/* experiment dirs and sim/*_sim + sim/*.vcd build
    artifacts -- not literal duplicates, flagged as candidates for a
    future, separate cleanup pass

Verified no functional breakage: grepped all remaining scripts/docs
for references to every removed path -- only prose/comment mentions
found, no executable imports or build-script paths broken.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_013xXuuRUWZScuo1DeYJxs3v
2026-09-07 05:30:17 +02:00
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FPGA-Neural V1 — Golden Reference (FROZEN)

Questo albero è una copia bit-esatta del codice V1 così come esisteva al commit 07a48e4 (fix: close 7 zero-value/mid-run guard gaps found in re-certification campaign) del repository principale. Verificato byte-per-byte al momento della creazione (diff -rq contro rtl/ e sim/*.v dell'albero principale, 0 differenze).

Regola non negoziabile

Questo albero non deve mai essere modificato. È il riferimento funzionale, numerico, prestazionale e bit-exact per ogni sviluppo V2 (hardware/v2/), per policy esplicita di docs/v2-description.md §1 e §34 ("V1 rimane intatta").

Se un bug o miglioramento V1 viene scoperto durante lo sviluppo V2, non correggerlo qui: documentarlo in hardware/v2/logs/decisions.log o errors.log e, se necessario, applicarlo separatamente al V1 "vivo" nell'albero principale del repository (rtl/, sim/, ecc.), mai in questa copia.

Contenuto

  • rtl/ — i 20 moduli RTL V1 (copia di rtl/*.v dell'albero principale).
  • sim/ — le 47 testbench V1 (copia di sim/*.v, esclusi i .vcd generati: rieseguibili in loco con iverilog/vvp, non servono duplicati).
  • tools/ — copia di tools/ (harness di regressione, netasm, generatore .lpf, oracoli di validazione).
  • constraints/ — i vincoli .lpf per ECP5 (spi_neuron_top.lpf, spi_neuron_top_flash.lpf).
  • synthesis/ — sottoinsieme rappresentativo dei risultati di sintesi reale già misurati sul V1 (non l'intera storia sperimentale, che resta nell'albero principale sotto synth/ecp5/):
    • post_fix_verify/ — sistema completo (spi_neuron_top con sottosistema flash, PARALLEL=8), stato più recente e autorevole: 0 errori di vincolo, Fmax 68.65 MHz.
    • p2/, p4/, p8/ — sweep isolato di neuron_parallel a PARALLEL variabile (N_INPUTS=256), stessa fonte dei numeri citati in docs/v2-description.md §3 per P8/P4/P2. Il dato P16 (52.13 MHz) citato nella stessa sezione proviene da docs/FPGA-Neural-Datapatch-Benchmark.md (copiato in docs/), non da un artefatto di sintesi grezzo separato.
  • docs/ — copia dei documenti di riferimento: WORKLOG.md, i capitoli di docs/validation/ (campagna di certificazione + registro bug), il datasheet markdown (FPGA-NeuralNetwork-Engine.md), il report benchmark (FPGA-Neural-Datapatch-Benchmark.md) e il documento hardware (FPGA-Neural-Hardware-Design.md).

Dati baseline citati da V2 (docs/v2-description.md §3)

Config Fmax (isolato, N_INPUTS=256) Fonte
PARALLEL=16 52.13 MHz (FAIL @80MHz) docs/FPGA-Neural-Datapatch-Benchmark.md
PARALLEL=8 61.71 MHz (FAIL @80MHz) synthesis/p8/
PARALLEL=4 75.01 MHz (FAIL @80MHz) synthesis/p4/
PARALLEL=2 87.88 MHz (PASS @80MHz) synthesis/p2/

Sistema integrato (spi_neuron_top, PARALLEL=8, sottosistema flash incluso): 68.65 MHz (synthesis/post_fix_verify/, più recente della cifra 65.13 MHz citata in docs/v2-description.md §3, che si riferiva a uno stato pre-fix precedente — vedi docs/WORKLOG.md per la cronologia completa).

Percorso critico osservato in ogni misura: logica di neuron_parallel.v (catena di riporto CCU2C del comparatore/accumulatore) e la sua interconnessione — mai il controller PSRAM.