docs: MMCM places but is dead on silicon -> open-flow structural options exhausted (Refs #1764) - #1907
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…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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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
IBUFDSnet, to probe the global clock-skew hypothesis.MMCME2_BASEplaces 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 aBUFGon 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