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Tests the last structural lever for the seed-lottery and closes the open-toolchain path.

Regenerate the 200 MHz clock through the MMCM/CMT tree (low-skew) instead of the fabric IBUFDS net, to probe the global clock-skew hypothesis. MMCME2_BASE places in nextpnr and the fasm builds, but the flashed bitstream is dead on the AX7203 — no UART response on any of four seeds, with or without a BUFG on the MMCM output. The open flow (prjxray fasm2frames) does not emit the MMCM configuration bits, so the MMCM never locks / drives no clock.

So the MMCM lever is placement-only on openXC7, not functional — the clock-skew hypothesis cannot be tested here, and the open-toolchain structural options are fully exhausted (11 local fixes ruled out + MMCM dead). Only commercial P&R (Vivado) can close timing directly or provide a working MMCM. Seed-search is the final practical answer on the open flow. Added ruled-out item #12.

Board restored to the generated capstone (XOR 4/4). Docs-only. Refs #1764

…ons exhausted (Refs #1764)

Tested the last structural lever: regenerate the 200 MHz clock through the
MMCM/CMT tree to probe the global clock-skew hypothesis. MMCME2_BASE places in
nextpnr and the fasm builds, but the flashed bitstream is dead on the AX7203
(no UART response, 4 seeds, with/without BUFG on the MMCM output) -- the open
flow does not emit MMCM config bits, so it never locks. MMCM is placement-only
on openXC7, not functional. So the open-toolchain structural options are
exhausted (11 local fixes + MMCM); only commercial P&R can close timing or
give a working MMCM. Seed-search is final on the open flow. Added ruled-out
#12.

Refs #1764

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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  • ⚠️ STALE -- sha256(compiler.rs)=2bd87d0d139e != manifest seal=87e5cbd3ad94.
    The committed NMSE numbers were certified against an older compiler.rs.
    Run scripts/reseal-check.sh locally for the two-step reseal command (advisory; not a merge gate).

…10) (Refs #1764)

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Total Open PRs 14
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  • ⚠️ STALE -- sha256(compiler.rs)=2bd87d0d139e != manifest seal=87e5cbd3ad94.
    The committed NMSE numbers were certified against an older compiler.rs.
    Run scripts/reseal-check.sh locally for the two-step reseal command (advisory; not a merge gate).

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