Files
FPGA-Neural/hardware/v3/rtl/flash_spi_master.v
T
micheleandClaude Sonnet 5 a4c080da83 feat: config-flash passthrough bridge via STARTUPE2, real board-exclusive flash access (EXP-0077)
Implements the user's board architecture: config flash wired
exclusively to the FPGA, host (ESP32) reaches it only through the
FPGA. flash_spi_master.v is a plain byte-wide SPI master using
STARTUPE2 to reclaim CCLK after configuration (the real, Xilinx-
documented "indirect SPI flash programming" technique, UG470 p94-96).
New opcode 0x40 FLASH_XFER in spi_host_bridge_v3.v relays bytes
byte-for-byte between host and the physical flash bus -- the host
decides the exact SPI NOR command sequence (verified against the real
W25Q32JV datasheet), this RTL knows nothing about flash semantics.

Found and fixed two real bugs during verification: a byte-assembly
off-by-one in flash_spi_master.v, and a genuine protocol-latency bug
in the FLASH_XFER opcode's response timing (needed 2 trailing margin
bytes, not 1 -- the internal flash transfer doesn't start until the
triggering byte finishes, so 1 byte of margin isn't enough). 39/39
tests pass end to end (host SPI -> bridge -> flash_spi_master ->
behavioral flash model).

Wired into n2_system_ddr3_top.v with real pin constraints (flash_mosi
=K17/flash_miso=K18/flash_cs_n=L13, the same pins reserved-but-unused
in EXP-0075) and BITSTREAM.CONFIG.PERSIST=FALSE made explicit.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MUG92aM9m68TRc4rG55BcC
2026-09-19 21:45:17 +02:00

147 lines
6.5 KiB
Verilog

`timescale 1ns/1ps
// ============================================================
// V3 -- physical SPI master for the FPGA's OWN configuration flash,
// used AFTER normal configuration completes (indirect programming,
// the same real, Xilinx-documented technique used by Vivado's own
// Hardware Manager "Program Configuration Memory Device" feature --
// UG470 7 Series FPGAs Configuration User Guide, pages 94-96).
//
// WHY THIS EXISTS: the user's board design keeps the config flash
// wired EXCLUSIVELY to the FPGA (no external host has a direct SPI
// connection to it) -- the host (an ESP32) can only reach the flash
// BY GOING THROUGH the FPGA, over the already-existing neural-
// processor management SPI (spi_host_bridge_v3.v). This module is
// the physical side of that bridge: a plain byte-wide SPI master
// (mode 0, MSB-first) driving the flash's own MOSI/CS_B pins and
// reading its MISO, at a fixed internal clock divide, completely
// independent of the host's own (slow, externally-clocked) SPI
// timing.
//
// DESIGN CHOICE (passthrough, not a smart flash controller): this
// module does NOT know any Winbond-specific command opcodes (Write
// Enable 0x06, Page Program 0x02, Sector Erase 0x20, Read Data 0x03,
// Read Status Register-1 0x05, BUSY=status bit0 -- all verified
// against the real W25Q32JV datasheet for the bridge's own protocol
// documentation, see spi_host_bridge_v3.v's header) -- it just
// relays whatever bytes the host sends, byte for byte, onto the
// physical flash bus, and relays back whatever the flash returns.
// The HOST decides the exact command sequence. This keeps this
// module trivial and correct-by-construction, and means a future
// flash part swap needs zero RTL changes here.
//
// CCLK REQUIRES STARTUPE2 (a real, hard Xilinx-imposed requirement,
// not a design choice): the physical CCLK pin is never an ordinary
// fabric I/O, even after configuration completes -- it can only be
// driven by fabric logic through the STARTUPE2 primitive's
// USRCCLKO/USRCCLKTS ports (UG953). MOSI/MISO/CS_B (this project's
// own board pins D00_MOSI/D01_DIN/FCS_B) DO become ordinary fabric
// I/O once configuration completes, PROVIDED the bitstream's
// CONFIG.PERSIST option is FALSE (the Vivado default) -- if a future
// build ever needs to flip PERSIST on for some other reason, this
// module stops working and that's a real, disclosed dependency, not
// a hidden one.
//
// ONLY ONE STARTUPE2 PRIMITIVE IS ALLOWED PER DESIGN (a real Xilinx
// placement rule) -- if this module is ever instantiated alongside
// another STARTUPE2 use (e.g. a future ICAPE2-based warm-reboot
// module that also needs it), they must share ONE instance, not two.
// ============================================================
module flash_spi_master (
input wire clk, // ui_clk domain
input wire rst,
// ---- byte-wide command interface (-> spi_host_bridge_v3.v) ----
input wire xfer_active, // held for the WHOLE flash transaction -- drives flash_cs_n
input wire byte_req, // one-shot pulse: shift byte_wdata out, capture the response
input wire [7:0] byte_wdata,
output reg [7:0] byte_rdata,
output reg byte_done, // one-cycle pulse once byte_rdata is valid
output wire busy, // shifting a byte right now (byte_req must wait for !busy)
// ---- physical flash pins (this project's board pins D00_MOSI/
// D01_DIN/FCS_B -- CCLK is NOT a port here, it's driven
// internally via STARTUPE2, see header) ----
output wire flash_cs_n,
output wire flash_mosi,
input wire flash_miso
);
// CCLK divider: ui_clk (155.039MHz per EXP-0074/0076's real P&R)
// /8 -> ~19.4MHz flash SCLK, comfortably inside the W25Q32JV's
// real rated clock (100MHz standard read, lower but still well
// above this for program/erase commands per its own datasheet) --
// a conservative, real-datasheet-checked margin, not guessed.
localparam DIV = 4; // toggle every DIV clk cycles -> full period = 2*DIV clk cycles
reg [2:0] div_cnt;
reg cclk_r;
wire cclk_tick = (div_cnt == DIV-1);
reg [2:0] bit_cnt;
reg [7:0] tx_shift, rx_shift;
reg shifting;
reg cclk_was_high;
assign busy = shifting;
assign flash_cs_n = ~xfer_active;
assign flash_mosi = tx_shift[7];
wire usr_cclk;
STARTUPE2 #(
.PROG_USR("FALSE"),
.SIM_CCLK_FREQ(0.0)
) u_startupe2 (
.CFGCLK(), .CFGMCLK(), .EOS(), .PREQ(),
.CLK(1'b0), .GSR(1'b0), .GTS(1'b0), .KEYCLEARB(1'b0), .PACK(1'b0),
.USRCCLKO(usr_cclk), .USRCCLKTS(1'b0),
.USRDONEO(1'b1), .USRDONETS(1'b1)
);
assign usr_cclk = cclk_r;
always @(posedge clk) begin
if (rst) begin
div_cnt <= 3'd0; cclk_r <= 1'b0; bit_cnt <= 3'd0;
tx_shift <= 8'h00; rx_shift <= 8'h00;
shifting <= 1'b0; byte_done <= 1'b0; byte_rdata <= 8'h00;
end else begin
byte_done <= 1'b0;
if (!shifting) begin
cclk_r <= 1'b0;
div_cnt <= 3'd0;
if (byte_req) begin
tx_shift <= byte_wdata;
bit_cnt <= 3'd0;
shifting <= 1'b1;
end
end else begin
if (cclk_tick) begin
div_cnt <= 3'd0;
cclk_r <= ~cclk_r;
if (!cclk_r) begin
// about to rise: sample MISO on the rising edge (mode 0)
rx_shift <= {rx_shift[6:0], flash_miso};
end else begin
// about to fall: advance to the next bit, shift MOSI
if (bit_cnt == 3'd7) begin
shifting <= 1'b0;
// rx_shift already holds all 8 sampled bits,
// correctly ordered, from the 8th (final)
// rising edge one tick ago -- do NOT re-
// sample flash_miso here, that would drop
// the real first bit and duplicate the last.
byte_rdata <= rx_shift;
byte_done <= 1'b1;
end else begin
bit_cnt <= bit_cnt + 3'd1;
tx_shift <= {tx_shift[6:0], 1'b0};
end
end
end else begin
div_cnt <= div_cnt + 1'b1;
end
end
end
end
endmodule