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FPGA-Neural/hardware/v2/logs
micheleandClaude Sonnet 5 7d6311bce3 feat: two-flash programming architecture, FPGA_DATA_READY, real JTAG/config pinout
Establishes the real ESP32<->ECP5 programming architecture: flash #1
(neural-network data, existing V1 subsystem, ball reserved not yet
wired into V2) stays separate from flash #2 (boot bitstream, MSPI
auto-boot, CFG[2:0]=[0,1,0]); ESP32 talks JTAG only (bit-banged, no
hardware JTAG-master peripheral on S3/C6), updating flash #2 through
the ECP5's own internal sysCONFIG-to-SPI bridge, never driving the
flash pins directly -- zero bus contention, confirmed against the real
Lattice hardware checklist and sysCONFIG user guide.

Adds real, verified ball assignments (official Lattice CABGA381 CSV +
Project Trellis iodb.json) for JTAG, PROGRAMN/INITN/DONE, CFG[2:0],
and the MSPI dedicated pins -- all written to docs/pinouts.md.

Implements FPGA_DATA_READY as real RTL: a system-idle detector
(dependency_manager's any_pending OR neural_director's !queue_empty OR
any active slot), sticky on the busy->idle edge, self-clearing on new
work -- not a per-neuron completion pulse, which was confirmed too
fine-grained. Bit-exact regression re-verified at N_SLOTS=4 and 8
(zero cycle-count change), new explicit data_ready assertion check
added to the D-Stress testbench (PASS both configs), and a fresh
Yosys+nextpnr-ecp5 placement check (0 errors, data_ready placed at G3).

Also fixes a real, independently-found bug while editing an adjacent
file: nms_neural_multiprocessor_sdram_unified.v's own sdram_a port was
still [11:0] (12 bits), stale from before the 64MB/13-bit memory
upgrade. Not exercised by the real board-level top (which wires SDRAM
directly, bypassing this wrapper) but WAS silently truncating A12 in
every D-Stress simulation this session, including today's earlier
ERR-0029 verification runs. Assessed impact: all D-Stress test
addresses used this session decode to rows under 4096 (bit 12 never
actually needed), so no false-positive PASS is believed to have
resulted -- but the full 64MB space was never actually exercised
through this wrapper. Fixed; re-verified bit-exact with identical
cycle counts.

See decisions.log DEC-0041 for full detail.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_013xXuuRUWZScuo1DeYJxs3v
2026-09-07 12:46:00 +02:00
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Formato dei log V2

Regola non negoziabile (docs/v2-description.md §25-29): ogni attività significativa (modifica, simulazione, sintesi, benchmark, decisione, errore) deve essere registrata. Nessun log viene mai sovrascritto o troncato — solo append. Nessun ID esperimento (EXP-XXXX) o decisione (DEC-XXXX) viene mai riutilizzato, anche se il risultato è un FAIL.

File

  • development.log — log principale di sviluppo, un'entry per ogni sessione di lavoro/milestone (creazione file, refactor, avanzamento roadmap).
  • architecture.log — decisioni e note di architettura a grana fine (non scelte finali — quelle vanno in decisions.log — ma esplorazioni, alternative considerate, vincoli scoperti).
  • simulation.log — ogni run di simulazione (Icarus/Verilator): test, vettori, cicli, PASS/FAIL, confronto bit-exact con V1, stall/memory-wait.
  • synthesis.log — ogni run Yosys: LUT/FF/DSP/BRAM, warning, problemi CHECK.
  • timing.log — ogni run nextpnr-ecp5: Fmax, percorso critico, WNS/TNS se disponibili. Fmax "ufficiale" di una configurazione = solo da qui, mai da simulazione o stima.
  • benchmark.log — tabelle di confronto per configurazione (Fmax, MAC/cycle, cycles/neuron, utilization, ecc.), sempre con etichetta THEORETICAL/SIMULATED/SYNTHESIZED/POST-P&R.
  • decisions.log — decisioni architetturali importanti, formato DEC-XXXX (vedi docs/v2-description.md §27).
  • experiments.log — registro principale, un EXP-XXXX per ogni esperimento end-to-end (config → sim/synth/timing → risultato), rimanda a reports/experiments/EXP-XXXX/.
  • errors.log — errori/bug/regressioni incontrati durante lo sviluppo V2 stesso (non i bug V1, già chiusi in hardware/v1/docs/validation/bugs.md).

Campi minimi per entry (§26)

timestamp, experiment_id (se applicabile), git_commit, session/agent,
module, configuration, action, reason, command, result, errors, decision,
next_action

Per synthesis/timing aggiungere: LUT, FF, DSP, BRAM, Fmax, critical path, WNS/TNS. Per simulazione: test, vectors, cycles, PASS/FAIL, bit-exact result, stall cycles, memory wait, utilization.