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FPGA-Neural/hardware/v2/rtl/activation_buffer.v
micheleandClaude Sonnet 5 5f0d7f101c feat(v2): M3 activation/weight/result buffers, real BRAM mapping
Implements M3: three parametric dual-port buffers for the §12
data-plane (Input/Weight/Result), reusing the proven BRAM-inference
idiom from the frozen hardware/v1/rtl/act_buffer.v (synchronous write,
synchronous REGISTERED read, no reset on the read register -- keeps
Yosys off the LUT-RAM path).

Verified with Verilator: 10/10 tests pass (write-then-read
correctness, extreme INT8 round-tripping, weight_buffer's full 64-bit
tile width round-tripping, undisturbed re-reads).

Real synthesis at two depths per module (6 configs total): 0 CHECK
problems, every configuration correctly infers DP16KD (never
LUT-RAM). Non-obvious real finding: weight_buffer's BRAM cost is
driven by its P_IN*DATA_WIDTH tile width, not its DEPTH -- an 8x depth
reduction (512->64) left DP16KD usage unchanged at 2, while
activation_buffer/result_buffer (byte-wide) scale as naively expected
(2->1). All default-depth configs PASS at 80MHz with large margin
(287-367 MHz) via real nextpnr-ecp5 place&route.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_013xXuuRUWZScuo1DeYJxs3v
2026-09-05 14:19:11 +02:00

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`timescale 1ns/1ps
// ================================================================
// FPGA-Neural V2 -- Activation Buffer (M3, docs/v2-description.md §14)
//
// Holds the "Input Buffer" of the §12 data-plane diagram: one INT8
// activation slot per signal id, read by the Neural Processor Array
// (via the Memory Manager, M4) and written by producers (external
// input load, or a Neural Processor's own result forwarded here for
// a downstream consumer).
//
// Same proven BRAM-inference idiom as hardware/v1/rtl/act_buffer.v
// (frozen, unmodified reference): dual-port, byte-addressed, Port A
// synchronous write, Port B synchronous REGISTERED read (1-cycle
// latency, no `rst` on the read register -- a synchronous reset on an
// indexed array forces Yosys onto LUT-RAM instead of a Lattice
// DP16KD block RAM). DEPTH is fully parametric (§14: "la profondita'
// deve essere parametrica").
// ================================================================
module activation_buffer #(
parameter DEPTH = 4096,
parameter DATA_WIDTH = 8,
localparam ADDR_WIDTH = $clog2(DEPTH)
)(
input wire clk,
input wire wr_en,
input wire [ADDR_WIDTH-1:0] wr_addr,
input wire signed [DATA_WIDTH-1:0] wr_data,
input wire [ADDR_WIDTH-1:0] rd_addr,
output reg signed [DATA_WIDTH-1:0] rd_data
);
reg signed [DATA_WIDTH-1:0] mem [0:DEPTH-1];
always @(posedge clk) begin
if (wr_en)
mem[wr_addr] <= wr_data;
end
always @(posedge clk) begin
rd_data <= mem[rd_addr];
end
endmodule