Cuts the lone remaining EMIF setup fail (-0.016 ns, -0.259 skew): the combinational
EMIF gen_p2c_ff -> wr_arb s2_wready -> gs_lpddr_z_rmw next-state (st, endpoint
labelled S_FILL_R via the shared encoded state register).
New gs_axi_w_regbuf: fully-registered one-entry W buffer (Option B per Codex).
- u_wready = !full ONLY (registered occupancy) -> EMIF WREADY never reaches the Z
FSM combinationally. NOT a fall-through skid (no !full-OR-d_wready term).
- Buffers WDATA/WSTRB/WLAST; downstream held stable until accepted; exactly-once.
- AW/B untouched; arbiter bready_q unchanged (still arms on real EMIF W handshake).
- z_rmw may enter B-wait once the beat is buffered -- safe: EMIF cannot return B
until the buffered beat reaches it. Single-beat writes -> the 1-beat/2-cycle
buffer rate is far above the Z write rate (no new FIFO pressure).
Wired in zc_emit between u_z W output (zi_*) and the z_w* ports. New file in sim
Makefile RTL_SRCS + synth QSF (both). Focused tb_gs_axi_w_regbuf: exactly-once/order/
payload scoreboard + no-combinational-bypass check (u_wready===!full incl. full &&
d_wready) + downstream-stable check; standalone target + in make run. Texture-cache
+0.016 paths NOT touched. No simulations or Quartus run.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Candidate 2 from the accepted structural proposal. Adds a QUAD_WIDTH4_READ
generate branch to gs_async_fifo: like QUADRANT_READ (2 depth x 2 width) but
splits the payload into FOUR width banks, so each preserved read-address launch
register drives ~half the M20K load (targets the 310MHz raddr_hi1_q->mem_hi1
setup family, WNS -0.103). Keeps QUADRANT_READ's proven 2:1 depth OUTPUT selector
unchanged (no new/deeper mux, per the doc's warning). Depth (8192), one-cycle
read latency, ordering, CDC, capacity, and interface are identical.
zc_emit u_req switched QUADRANT_READ->QUAD_WIDTH4_READ. New default-off param
leaves the other two gs_async_fifo instances byte-identical. TB gains a
TEST_QUAD_WIDTH4 variant + standalone Makefile target tb_gs_async_fifo_quad_width4.
NO simulations or Quartus run (per authorization). Awaiting review before any sim.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Per-vertex GS fog end-to-end (gs_stub emit incl. persp_emit5, gs_prim_list_feeder
XYZ2->XYZF2 on PRIM.FGE, gs_make_sh3_scheduler_fixture.py F/FGE packing), new fog
TBs, fidelity attribution tooling. Functional baseline before removing the dead
bilinear lerp8 clamps (Codex: 161-node comb loop -> -0.042ns setup fail).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
thejayman77