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Tagged releases should provide a ready-to-program Tang Primer 25K bitstream, with a clear path for users who do not want to build the FPGA image themselves.

This adds a version-checked release workflow that builds and attaches the bitstream. The Web UI can load .fs files into volatile SRAM or persistent flash through an FT2232H JTAG interface, with bitstream, flash-capacity, range, and verification safeguards.

After this is merged, tag 0.1.0 will match the Rust package version and create the release.

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📝 Walkthrough

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This change adds Gowin .fs bitstream parsing and WebUSB programming for SRAM and SPI flash. It adds a Bitstream web panel, tagged release packaging with checksums, package version alignment, and documentation for release and browser-based programming workflows.

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Gowin programming and delivery

Layer / File(s) Summary
Bitstream metadata and validation
tool/src/gowin.rs, tool/src/gowin_validation.rs, tool/src/lib.rs
Adds .fs parsing, checksum handling, payload extraction, flash capacity and range validation, public programming data types, and WASM module exposure.
WebUSB and JTAG transport
tool/src/gowin.rs
Adds FT2232H discovery, MPSSE setup, TAP state transitions, JTAG bit shifting, clock control, device reads, writes, and asynchronous timing.
SRAM and flash programming
tool/src/gowin.rs
Adds Gowin SRAM programming and SPI flash operations, including erase, page programming, protection changes, verification, status polling, and progress reporting.
Bitstream web interface
tool/src/web_main.rs
Adds the Bitstream panel, .fs file selection and inspection, SRAM and flash programming controls, progress updates, error handling, and navigation.
Release publication and usage documentation
tool/Cargo.toml, .github/workflows/release.yml, README.md
Aligns the package version with tagged releases, builds and packages versioned bitstreams with checksums, and documents release and browser-programming procedures.

Priority: ➖ Normal — Schedule the release and browser-programming change because it adds a broad FPGA user workflow, flash programming safeguards, and tagged bitstream publishing.

Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~120 minutes

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Browser
  participant NorbertWebApp
  participant GowinProgrammer
  participant TangPrimer25K
  Browser->>NorbertWebApp: select `.fs` bitstream
  NorbertWebApp->>NorbertWebApp: inspect bitstream metadata
  Browser->>NorbertWebApp: choose SRAM or flash programming
  NorbertWebApp->>GowinProgrammer: start WebUSB programming
  GowinProgrammer->>TangPrimer25K: erase and write configuration
  TangPrimer25K-->>GowinProgrammer: return status and device identifiers
  GowinProgrammer-->>NorbertWebApp: report progress and result
  NorbertWebApp-->>Browser: display programming status
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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 5c767

Browser-based FPGA programming may not reliably follow the required JTAG sequence in some flows. The change is otherwise bounded, but this sequencing concern should be addressed before relying on it broadly.

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ArthurHeymans force-pushed the release-0.1.0 branch 2 times, most recently from 1fe3d78 to 543b7b8 Compare August 26, 2026 21:35
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In `@tool/src/gowin.rs`:
- Around line 740-742: Update the FLASH_PP address path to reject offsets that
are not 256-byte aligned and validate checked offset-plus-data length before
computing the erase range, ensuring the final address does not exceed 0x01000000
for the 24-bit addr24 encoding. Preserve the existing chunks(256) write loop
once validation guarantees page alignment and prevent unchecked u32 arithmetic
in the start/end/total calculations.
- Around line 525-542: Bound the retry loop in erase_sram by enforcing a finite
maximum number of attempts, while preserving the existing retry and termination
behavior. When the cap is reached with STATUS_DONE_FINAL still asserted, return
an error that includes the most recent status value instead of continuing
indefinitely; use the existing error-handling conventions visible in the
surrounding method.
- Around line 374-378: Update compute_checksum to truncate the accumulated
checksum to 16 bits before write_sram serializes it with to_le_bytes, preserving
the required zero-extended 32-bit DR transfer format.
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- Around line 1143-1160: Update set_state so its match arms no longer contain
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Comment on lines +1143 to +1160
while self.state != new_state {
let tms = match self.state {
TapState::TestLogicReset => {
if new_state == TapState::TestLogicReset {
true
} else {
self.state = TapState::RunTestIdle;
false
}
}
TapState::RunTestIdle => {
if new_state == TapState::RunTestIdle {
false
} else {
self.state = TapState::SelectDrScan;
true
}
}

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

🔎 Supported by static analysis

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Remove or relocate the unreachable same-state branches in set_state.

The while self.state != new_state guard makes each branch that checks the current state unreachable. Same-state calls emit no TMS clock. Remove these branches, or handle same-state clocking before the loop if the GW5A sequence requires it.

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In `@tool/src/gowin.rs` around lines 1143 - 1160, Update set_state so its match
arms no longer contain unreachable checks for self.state == new_state under the
while self.state != new_state guard. Preserve the existing no-clock behavior for
same-state calls, unless the required GW5A sequence explicitly needs same-state
clocking, in which case handle it before entering the loop.

Publish Tang Primer 25K bitstreams from version tags and add browser-based Gowin programming through WebUSB.
Reject missing configuration rows before opening JTAG. Read flash capacity
from SFDP and validate write and sector-erase ranges before changing flash
protection or issuing erase commands.

Extract pure validation logic for native tests and document the SFDP
requirement.
Rebase the release work onto current master and adapt MPSSE GPIO and clock
operations to the session-based ftdi-nusb 0.3 API.
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