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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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# V2 simulation log -- solo append, mai troncato/sovrascritto (vedi README.md)
# Nessuna entry ancora -- popolato incrementalmente man mano che avanza lo sviluppo V2.
[2026-09-05] EXP-0001/EXP-0002 -- hardware/v2/sim/tb_neural_processor.v
test: 7 cases (16/32/8/8/8/8/64-input jobs; ACT_NONE + ACT_RELU;
extreme INT8 saturation; back-to-back zero-idle-gap tiles)
vectors: regular positive, mixed-sign cancellation, extreme INT8
(-128,-127,-1,0,1,126,127,127 in one 8-lane tile), back-to-back
jobs, 8-tile (64-input) job
simulator: Verilator 5.050 (--binary --timing) -- see decisions.log
DEC-0004 for why Icarus v13.0 is not trusted for this testbench
cycles: not separately profiled at this milestone (throughput/stall
cycle counting deferred to M9 per §22)
PASS/FAIL: 7/7 PASS (ACC_WIDTH=32); 7/7 PASS (ACC_WIDTH=24, EXP-0002)
bit-exact result: V1.y === V2.result_data for every case, both widths
stall cycles / memory wait / utilization: N/A (no Memory Manager yet,
M1 operands fed directly by testbench per the roadmap)
[2026-09-05] EXP-0003 -- hardware/v2/sim/tb_neural_processor_array.v
(N_PROCESSORS=4)
test: 7 cases (single-processor sanity; 4-way same-cycle concurrent
launch with different tile counts; staggered-start 2-processor test)
simulator: Verilator 5.050 (--binary --timing)
PASS/FAIL: 7/7 PASS
bit-exact result: N/A at this milestone (hand-computed expected
values, arithmetic itself already bit-exact-certified vs V1 at M1)
concurrency: confirmed genuine -- in the staggered test, the
later-launched, shorter job (processor 1) completes BEFORE the
earlier-launched, longer job (processor 0), proving independent
progress rather than serialization.
[2026-09-05] EXP-0004 -- hardware/v2/sim/tb_buffers.v
test: 10 cases across activation_buffer/weight_buffer/result_buffer
vectors: extreme INT8 (-128, 127, -100, 100), regular values, full
64-bit tile round-trip (weight_buffer), re-reads confirming earlier
writes undisturbed
simulator: Verilator 5.050 (--binary --timing)
PASS/FAIL: 10/10 PASS