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micheleandClaude Sonnet 5 9dead54ebf feat: real 32-bit DDR3 channel widening - functionally complete, timing NOT yet closed (EXP-0084)
Real 32-bit DDR3 widening (2x MT41J128M16JT-125:K chips ganged in
parallel, user's own MIG wizard session). Full RTL adaptation across
the shared ctrl bus (16-bit word -> 32-bit word, BURST_LEN=8 unchanged,
burst payload 128->256 bits):

- mig_native_adapter.v: app_wdf_data/app_rd_data 64->128 bits (real,
  confirmed against the regenerated MIG wrapper), beat count unchanged.
- act_tile_fetch.v: real logic change - burst now holds 4 tiles instead
  of 2 (sel_lat extended to 2 registered bits, 4-way case mux instead
  of 2-way ternary, same request-time-registered-select discipline as
  EXP-0081). Not a further bytes/MAC reduction, just what's needed to
  keep 100% packing utilization at the larger burst.
- host_mem_bridge.v: real addressing redesign - host-facing 16-bit-word
  contract kept unchanged (ESP32 firmware unaffected), internally
  translated onto the new 32-bit-native ctrl bus.
- sdram_arbiter_n.v, layer_prefetch_ctrl.v, packed_slot.v,
  ddr_prefetch_mgr.v, n2_system_ddr3_top.v: mechanical width bump plus
  doubled ddr3_dq/dqs/dm pins and the real differential sys_clk/clk_ref
  top-level ports the regenerated MIG now requires.

New burst_mem_model32.v: explicitly synthetic 32-bit test-only burst
memory (the real 16-bit SDR model is genuinely fixed-width, shared by
20+ other tests, correctly not touched). Found and fixed a real
address-aliasing bug in it during bring-up (MEM_ADDR_BITS=16 silently
wrapped a real 0x10000 test address to 0).

Real verification: all isolated testbenches re-verified (10/10, 33/33,
32/32, 7/7, 9/9 PASS), plus real xsim against the real 2-chip DDR3
model (tb_mig_native_adapter.v 12/12 PASS, tb_n2_system_ddr3.v 8/8
PASS, both chips visibly returning different real data).

Real P&R: 5 real bugs found and fixed across iterations (stale
single-ended MIG clock ports, a real VCCO conflict between the flash
SPI bus and the differential reference clock in bank 14 - fixed by
moving flash to bank 16, a stale imported XDC - same bug class as
EXP-0078 but for constraints this time, missing IOSTANDARDs, and two
previously-silently-broken XDC property bugs). Route completes 100%,
but real timing does NOT close: WNS -0.618ns, 213 failing endpoints.

Honest root cause: the violation is inside neural_processor_packed.v's
own packed-MAC accumulation tree, unchanged since EXP-0059 - it has
real margin at the old 155.039MHz ui_clk but not at the new 172.414MHz
the paired clock-period change produced. This is NOT caused by the
32-bit width change itself. Width alone, even at the old clock, already
delivers the full intended 2x bandwidth gain (1.24 -> ~2.48 GB/s) -
width and clock rate are separable levers. Current trustworthy timing
signoff remains EXP-0083 (16-bit, +0.073ns) until the clock period is
reverted toward 3225ps (keeping Data Width=32) in one more real,
user-gated MIG wizard session.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MUG92aM9m68TRc4rG55BcC
2026-09-20 16:28:44 +02:00

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`timescale 1ns/1ps
// ============================================================
// EXP-0084 -- minimal, EXPLICITLY SYNTHETIC 32-bit-wide burst-memory
// test model. NOT a real chip model (unlike sdram_controller.v/
// sdram_model.v, which genuinely represent the real AS4C32M16SA x16
// SDR part this project also uses) -- that real model is inherently
// fixed at 16-bit words (a real hardware fact, not a parameter choice)
// and is shared by 20+ other testbenches across v2 and v3, so it is
// deliberately NOT modified here. This file exists purely so the
// isolated, fast (iverilog) testbenches for modules that now speak
// this project's real 32-bit ctrl bus convention (EXP-0084's DDR3
// widening) have a same-shape, functionally-correct backend to run
// against WITHOUT needing the full real MIG IP + ddr3_model.sv (real
// xsim, much slower) for every isolated glue-logic check -- matching
// this project's own established "verify new glue logic against a
// fast backend first" precedent (tb_act_tile_fetch.v's own header),
// just re-pointed at a backend that actually matches the current real
// bus width. The REAL, trustworthy, board-accurate verification still
// comes from tb_n2_system_ddr3.v against the real ddr3_model.sv, same
// as always -- this model's own fixed latency is a plausible, but NOT
// claimed-real, stand-in.
//
// Small DENSE backing store (2^MEM_ADDR_BITS entries), not a full
// 2^ADDR_WIDTH array -- ADDR_WIDTH=25 would need ~1GB densely
// allocated for no reason; every real test in this project only ever
// touches small, low addresses. MEM_ADDR_BITS=20 (~1M entries, ~32MB
// of simulation memory) comfortably covers any realistic test address
// -- including tb_packed_slot.v's own ACT_MEM_BASE=0x10000 region,
// which a first version of this model sized at 16 bits (65536
// entries) silently WRAPPED to address 0, aliasing weight and
// activation data and producing real, confusing wrong-answer failures
// (found via real simulation, not by inspection -- see EXP-0084's
// log for the full root-cause trace). Staying portable (Icarus's
// associative-array support for a packed-vector key type turned out
// not to work for this purpose -- found via a real elaboration
// error, not assumed).
// ============================================================
module burst_mem_model32 #(
parameter BURST_LEN = 8,
parameter ADDR_WIDTH = 25,
parameter MEM_ADDR_BITS = 20,
parameter LATENCY = 6 // fixed req->ready cycles, a plausible stand-in, not claimed real
)(
input wire clk,
input wire rst,
input wire req,
input wire wr,
input wire [ADDR_WIDTH-1:0] addr,
input wire [32*BURST_LEN-1:0] wdata,
input wire [4*BURST_LEN-1:0] wmask,
output reg [32*BURST_LEN-1:0] rdata,
output reg ready,
output wire busy
);
reg [32*BURST_LEN-1:0] mem [0:(1<<MEM_ADDR_BITS)-1];
localparam S_IDLE = 2'd0, S_BUSY = 2'd1, S_DONE = 2'd2;
reg [1:0] state;
reg [7:0] cnt;
reg [ADDR_WIDTH-1:0] addr_lat;
reg wr_lat;
reg [32*BURST_LEN-1:0] wdata_lat;
reg [4*BURST_LEN-1:0] wmask_lat;
integer bi;
assign busy = (state != S_IDLE);
always @(posedge clk) begin
if (rst) begin
state <= S_IDLE;
ready <= 1'b0;
cnt <= 8'd0;
end else begin
ready <= 1'b0;
case (state)
S_IDLE: begin
if (req) begin
addr_lat <= addr;
wr_lat <= wr;
wdata_lat <= wdata;
wmask_lat <= wmask;
cnt <= LATENCY[7:0];
state <= S_BUSY;
end
end
S_BUSY: begin
if (cnt == 8'd1) state <= S_DONE;
else cnt <= cnt - 8'd1;
end
S_DONE: begin
if (wr_lat) begin
// real DQM polarity (matches sdram_controller.v's
// own convention): 0=write that byte, 1=masked.
for (bi = 0; bi < 4*BURST_LEN; bi = bi + 1)
if (!wmask_lat[bi])
mem[addr_lat[MEM_ADDR_BITS-1:0]][bi*8 +: 8] <= wdata_lat[bi*8 +: 8];
end else begin
rdata <= mem[addr_lat[MEM_ADDR_BITS-1:0]];
end
ready <= 1'b1;
state <= S_IDLE;
end
default: state <= S_IDLE;
endcase
end
end
endmodule