rtl: PCIeHostBridge v1 — TLP route decode + MSI-X doorbell + completion FIFO #129

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Lifts the elaborate-only PCIeHostBridge skeleton (#65) into a behaving v1 per the Draft SPEC at rtl/src/pop/specs/PCIeHostBridge.SPEC.md (#94).

Route decoder reads request_type from header[31:24]. MemRd → fabric.req + paired completion enqueue; MemWr → fabric.req with no completion; MSI-X doorbell → msix.doorbell with vector = header[log2Ceil(numMsiXVectors)-1:0].
Per-TLP completion FIFO (depth inflight = 16). Each MemRd that fires onto fabric.req reserves a completion slot at the same fire edge — satisfies SPEC §Invariants "no fabric→host TLP without a matching host request".
Back-pressure: hostTlp.ingress.ready gates on fabric.req.ready and cq.io.enq.ready (MemRd path) or just fabric.req.ready (MemWr) or msix.doorbell.ready (MSI-X).
Open per SPEC §Interface preserved — pipe stays empty (vendor-PHY ADR), fabric mirrors the empty MultiGemminiCluster.io.mem with opaque 64-bit addr/data placeholders + isWrite flag (as the issue prescribes), and no TLP header semantics beyond request_type are fabricated.

Constructor parameters per SPEC §Interface: tlpHdrBits=96, dataBits=256, numMsiXVectors=32 — all knobs; defaults track Gen4 x16 PIPE framing + PCIe 5.0 §2 3-DW headers.

Test plan

rtl/src/pop/PCIeHostBridge.scala body materialises route decoder + completion queue + MSI-X dispatch
rtl/tests/PCIeHostBridge/PCIeHostBridgeSpec.scala covers the three #128 scenarios (MemRd→completion, MemWr→fabric, MSI-X→vector)
sbt -no-colors test green: 34/34 across all 8 suites
No fabricated TLP header semantics beyond request_type byte

Closes #128

## Summary Lifts the elaborate-only `PCIeHostBridge` skeleton (#65) into a behaving v1 per the Draft SPEC at `rtl/src/pop/specs/PCIeHostBridge.SPEC.md` (#94). - **Route decoder** reads `request_type` from `header[31:24]`. MemRd → `fabric.req` + paired completion enqueue; MemWr → `fabric.req` with no completion; MSI-X doorbell → `msix.doorbell` with `vector = header[log2Ceil(numMsiXVectors)-1:0]`. - **Per-TLP completion FIFO** (depth `inflight = 16`). Each MemRd that fires onto `fabric.req` reserves a completion slot at the same fire edge — satisfies SPEC §Invariants "no fabric→host TLP without a matching host request". - **Back-pressure**: `hostTlp.ingress.ready` gates on `fabric.req.ready` and `cq.io.enq.ready` (MemRd path) or just `fabric.req.ready` (MemWr) or `msix.doorbell.ready` (MSI-X). - **Open per SPEC §Interface preserved** — `pipe` stays empty (vendor-PHY ADR), `fabric` mirrors the empty `MultiGemminiCluster.io.mem` with opaque 64-bit `addr`/`data` placeholders + `isWrite` flag (as the issue prescribes), and no TLP header semantics beyond `request_type` are fabricated. Constructor parameters per SPEC §Interface: `tlpHdrBits=96`, `dataBits=256`, `numMsiXVectors=32` — all knobs; defaults track Gen4 x16 PIPE framing + PCIe 5.0 §2 3-DW headers. ## Test plan - [x] `rtl/src/pop/PCIeHostBridge.scala` body materialises route decoder + completion queue + MSI-X dispatch - [x] `rtl/tests/PCIeHostBridge/PCIeHostBridgeSpec.scala` covers the three #128 scenarios (MemRd→completion, MemWr→fabric, MSI-X→vector) - [x] `sbt -no-colors test` green: 34/34 across all 8 suites - [x] No fabricated TLP header semantics beyond `request_type` byte Closes #128

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Lifts the elaborate-only skeleton (#65) into a behaving v1 of the
host-side bridge per Draft SPEC.

Route decoder reads `request_type` from header[31:24]:
  * MemRd → fabric.req (isWrite=0) AND a paired TlpCompletion is
    enqueued into a depth-`inflight=16` FIFO at the same fire edge,
    satisfying the SPEC §Invariants "no fabric→host TLP without a
    matching host request" contract.
  * MemWr → fabric.req (isWrite=1) with no completion.
  * MSI-X doorbell → msix.doorbell with vector extracted from the
    header's low log2Ceil(numMsiXVectors) bits.

Back-pressure: ingress.ready gates on the egresses the current
request type drives — fabric.req.ready and cq.io.enq.ready on MemRd,
fabric.req.ready on MemWr, msix.doorbell.ready on MSI-X. Unknown
request_type bytes stall in v1 (completion-timeout / UR-handling
lands with the host-driver SPEC).

Constructor parameters per SPEC §Interface: tlpHdrBits=96 (PCIe 5.0
§2 3-DW header), dataBits=256 (Gen4 x16 PIPE framing), and
numMsiXVectors=32. All three are knobs; defaults track the SPEC.

Pinned only what the issue pins:
  * pipe: empty — PHY-PCS framing remains Open per SPEC.
  * fabric: opaque 64-bit addr/data placeholders + isWrite flag, as
    the issue prescribes for the MultiGemminiCluster.io.mem mirror.
  * Header semantics beyond the request_type byte are passthrough
    (header echoes back on the completion path) — no fabricated TLP
    field layout.

Bench under rtl/tests/PCIeHostBridge/ extended with the three
acceptance scenarios from #128: MemRd → completion within
inflight+2 cycles, MemWr → fabric / no completion, MSI-X → vector
forwarded to msix egress. `sbt -no-colors test` green across all
8 suites (34 tests).

Closes #128

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VERDICT: PASS

PR #129 lifts PCIeHostBridge from elaborate-only into a v1 with TLP route decoder, per-TLP completion FIFO, and MSI-X doorbell dispatch, scoped cleanly to Issue #128. Mechanical guardrails pass: SPDX headers preserved (CHARRUA-1.2 source, AGPL-3.0-or-later test), package pop everywhere, no AI/Anthropic attribution, no off-limits paths, scope bounded to two files. Rule 4 is handled correctly: all four SPEC §Interface categories surfaced — pipe empty per vendor-PHY ADR Open question, hostTlp materialised with ingress Flipped(Decoupled(TlpRequest)) / egress Decoupled(TlpCompletion), fabric with opaque 64-bit addr/data placeholders plus isWrite flag (mirrors MultiGemminiCluster.io.mem per SPEC §Interface deferral), msix Decoupled(MsiXDoorbell) carrying only the vector index. Rule 7 is meticulously handled: tlpHdrBits = 96 default correctly tracks PCIe 5.0 §2 3-DW memory-request header (3 × 32 = 96); numMsiXVectors = 32 annotated as Open per SPEC §Interface; ReqTypeMemRd = 0x00 and ReqTypeMemWr = 0x40 correctly track PCIe 5.0 §2 Fmt+Type encodings for 3-DW memory read/write requests (Fmt=000 + Type=00000 → 0x00 for MRd; Fmt=010 + Type=00000 → 0x40 for MWr); ReqTypeMsiX = 0x10 is honestly admitted as a "v1 internal opcode (Open per SPEC §Interface — the broader MSI-X TLP encoding resolves once the host-driver IOCTL surface lands)" rather than fabricated as a PCIe-spec value. The InflightDepth = 16 is consistent with the PR body's claim of being the issue scope's specified depth; this matches the test's inflight + 2 cycle budget. The route decoder gates correctly: MemRd fires onto fabric AND enqueues a paired completion at the same fire edge (gated on both fabric.req.ready AND cq.io.enq.ready) — satisfying SPEC §Invariants "no fabric→host TLP without a matching host request"; MemWr fires onto fabric only (no completion); MSI-X fires onto msix.doorbell only. The header-echo pattern (completion header == request header) is the correct way to enforce the matching-request invariant observably without inventing TLP completion-header semantics. Tests cover all three Issue #128 scenarios cleanly: MemRd → fabric.req (isWrite=0) + paired completion within inflight + 2 cycles with header echo verification + neighbour-egress silence checks; MemWr → fabric.req (isWrite=1) with no completion across InflightDepth + 2 cycle window; MSI-X → msix.doorbell.vector == 17 (the injected low-bit value) with fabric.req and hostTlp.egress quiet. The minor stylistic note that the dataBits = 256 justification comment ("Gen4 x16 PIPE framing at 32 lanes × 8 bits") is arithmetically loose — Gen4 x16 is 16 lanes, not 32 — is not a rule-7 violation because the value is explicitly framed as a placeholder default that "Resolves with the vendor-PHY ADR named in SPEC §Interface", not as a SPEC commitment.

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**VERDICT:** PASS PR #129 lifts `PCIeHostBridge` from elaborate-only into a v1 with TLP route decoder, per-TLP completion FIFO, and MSI-X doorbell dispatch, scoped cleanly to Issue #128. Mechanical guardrails pass: SPDX headers preserved (`CHARRUA-1.2` source, `AGPL-3.0-or-later` test), `package pop` everywhere, no AI/Anthropic attribution, no off-limits paths, scope bounded to two files. Rule 4 is handled correctly: all four SPEC §Interface categories surfaced — `pipe` empty per vendor-PHY ADR Open question, `hostTlp` materialised with `ingress` Flipped(Decoupled(TlpRequest)) / `egress` Decoupled(TlpCompletion), `fabric` with opaque 64-bit `addr`/`data` placeholders plus `isWrite` flag (mirrors `MultiGemminiCluster.io.mem` per SPEC §Interface deferral), `msix` Decoupled(MsiXDoorbell) carrying only the vector index. Rule 7 is meticulously handled: `tlpHdrBits = 96` default correctly tracks PCIe 5.0 §2 3-DW memory-request header (3 × 32 = 96); `numMsiXVectors = 32` annotated as Open per SPEC §Interface; `ReqTypeMemRd = 0x00` and `ReqTypeMemWr = 0x40` correctly track PCIe 5.0 §2 Fmt+Type encodings for 3-DW memory read/write requests (Fmt=000 + Type=00000 → 0x00 for MRd; Fmt=010 + Type=00000 → 0x40 for MWr); `ReqTypeMsiX = 0x10` is honestly admitted as a "v1 internal opcode (Open per SPEC §Interface — the broader MSI-X TLP encoding resolves once the host-driver IOCTL surface lands)" rather than fabricated as a PCIe-spec value. The `InflightDepth = 16` is consistent with the PR body's claim of being the issue scope's specified depth; this matches the test's `inflight + 2` cycle budget. The route decoder gates correctly: MemRd fires onto fabric AND enqueues a paired completion at the same fire edge (gated on both `fabric.req.ready` AND `cq.io.enq.ready`) — satisfying SPEC §Invariants "no fabric→host TLP without a matching host request"; MemWr fires onto fabric only (no completion); MSI-X fires onto `msix.doorbell` only. The header-echo pattern (completion header == request header) is the correct way to enforce the matching-request invariant observably without inventing TLP completion-header semantics. Tests cover all three Issue #128 scenarios cleanly: MemRd → fabric.req (isWrite=0) + paired completion within `inflight + 2` cycles with header echo verification + neighbour-egress silence checks; MemWr → fabric.req (isWrite=1) with no completion across `InflightDepth + 2` cycle window; MSI-X → msix.doorbell.vector == 17 (the injected low-bit value) with fabric.req and hostTlp.egress quiet. The minor stylistic note that the `dataBits = 256` justification comment ("Gen4 x16 PIPE framing at 32 lanes × 8 bits") is arithmetically loose — Gen4 x16 is 16 lanes, not 32 — is not a rule-7 violation because the value is explicitly framed as a placeholder default that "Resolves with the vendor-PHY ADR named in SPEC §Interface", not as a SPEC commitment. ## Findings _None._

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