Draft docs/phy/phy-options.md research report skeleton #32

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Goal

Create the initial docs/phy/phy-options.md research report skeleton referenced in PLAN.md Section 13. This is one of the three Phase 1 PHY deliverables (Section 13.4). The skeleton organizes the survey work but does NOT make final recommendations — those come from the existing open issue on PHY options survey + partnership outreach.

Structure:

Executive summary (placeholder)
Why PHY is hard (paraphrased from Section 13.1)
Option 1: Open academic PHY (BAG, OpenSerDes) — status, target speed, IHP130 feasibility (stub)
Option 2: Commercial IP licensing (VeriSilicon, Innosilicon, Alphawave) — sanction notes, cost ranges (stub)
Option 3: Academic partnership (USP-LSI, UFRGS GME, Unicamp CCS, IIT-Madras) — contact status (stub, references partnership outreach issue)
Comparison matrix (empty, columns: option / target speed / cost / IP risk / Brazil-compatible / lead time)
Recommendation (deferred to outreach issue results)
Open questions

Acceptance criteria

docs/phy/phy-options.md exists with the structure above
Each section has a TODO marker indicating what's missing
Comparison matrix is a markdown table with headers but mostly empty rows
Document explicitly references the existing PHY options survey + partnership outreach issue for fill-in work
No fabricated technical claims about specific vendors or speeds
docs/phy/README.md (if absent) briefly describes the directory

Plan refs

Section 13.1 (why PHY is hard), Section 13.2 (three options), Section 13.4 (deliverable #3), Section 13.5 (honest summary)

Notes

This is structural scaffolding for the existing PHY outreach issue to land its findings into. Do not pre-judge any option — recommendation comes from outreach results, not from this skeleton.

## Goal Create the initial `docs/phy/phy-options.md` research report skeleton referenced in PLAN.md Section 13. This is one of the three Phase 1 PHY deliverables (Section 13.4). The skeleton organizes the survey work but does NOT make final recommendations — those come from the existing open issue on PHY options survey + partnership outreach. Structure: - Executive summary (placeholder) - Why PHY is hard (paraphrased from Section 13.1) - Option 1: Open academic PHY (BAG, OpenSerDes) — status, target speed, IHP130 feasibility (stub) - Option 2: Commercial IP licensing (VeriSilicon, Innosilicon, Alphawave) — sanction notes, cost ranges (stub) - Option 3: Academic partnership (USP-LSI, UFRGS GME, Unicamp CCS, IIT-Madras) — contact status (stub, references partnership outreach issue) - Comparison matrix (empty, columns: option / target speed / cost / IP risk / Brazil-compatible / lead time) - Recommendation (deferred to outreach issue results) - Open questions ## Acceptance criteria - [ ] `docs/phy/phy-options.md` exists with the structure above - [ ] Each section has a `TODO` marker indicating what's missing - [ ] Comparison matrix is a markdown table with headers but mostly empty rows - [ ] Document explicitly references the existing PHY options survey + partnership outreach issue for fill-in work - [ ] No fabricated technical claims about specific vendors or speeds - [ ] `docs/phy/README.md` (if absent) briefly describes the directory ## Plan refs Section 13.1 (why PHY is hard), Section 13.2 (three options), Section 13.4 (deliverable #3), Section 13.5 (honest summary) ## Notes This is structural scaffolding for the existing PHY outreach issue to land its findings into. Do not pre-judge any option — recommendation comes from outreach results, not from this skeleton.