phy: Improve clock accuracy at 0.5 dividers at the cost of some jitter

Actually, assuming that each clock domain is fast enough for 10 MBit/s,
there is no problem running crazy ratios.

README.MD

@@ -28,6 +28,14 @@ Notes:
 * The RX pull up/downs are probably not the best idea, and fixable in a better way. But for now, this shall work -- and suffice!
 * On the TX side, I'm grossly overloading the drivers. A line driver would probably be a good idea. Or you can just parallel multiple outputs ;D
 
+## Stats
+
+Sythesized for a Lattice LFXP2-5E FPGA using LSE / Diamond v3.12:
+
+| Configuration    | Slices | LUT4 | Registers |
+| ---------------- | ------ | ---- | --------- |
+| `trashernet_phy` | 115    | 188  | 91        |
+
 ## License
 
 This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public License, v. 2.0.

trashernet/trashernet_eth.vhd

@@ -141,10 +141,7 @@ begin
 						end if;
 
 					when TXD =>
-						if (not mac_in.tx_mac_data_en or not mac_out.tx_active) then
+						state <= IDLE when (not mac_in.tx_mac_data_en or not mac_out.tx_active);
-							state <= IDLE;
-							sel <= SEL_ETH_I; -- To avoid arbitration errors, always select the highest priority one by default
-						end if;
 				end case;
 			end if;
 		end process arb;

trashernet/trashernet_ipv4prot.vhd

@@ -105,10 +105,7 @@ begin
 						end loop;
 
 					when TXD =>
-						if not ipv4_in.tx_en then
+						state <= IDLE when (not ipv4_in.tx_en);
-							state <= IDLE;
-							tx_sel <= ipv4_protocol_in'left; -- To avoid arbitration errors, always select the highest priority one by default
-						end if;
 				end case;
 			end if;
 		end process arb;

trashernet/trashernet_phy.vhd

@@ -253,6 +253,7 @@ begin
 		begin
 			if rst then
 				phy_out.rx_data_valid <= '0';
+				phy_out.rx_data <= (others => '0'); -- Needed for yosys to compile
 
 			elsif rising_edge(clk) then
 				phy_out.rx_data_valid <= '0';
@@ -296,8 +297,11 @@ begin
 	-- -------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 	transmitter : block
-		constant TX_STB_CNT_MAX : integer := integer(round(real(F_CLK) / real((F_ETH * 2)))) - 1;
+		constant TX_STB_CNT_IDEAL   : real    := real(F_CLK) / real((F_ETH * 2));
-		signal tx_stb_cnt       : integer range 0 to TX_STB_CNT_MAX;
+		constant TX_STB_SKIP_ERROR  : real    := abs (round(TX_STB_CNT_IDEAL) - TX_STB_CNT_IDEAL);
+		constant TX_STB_CNT_MAX     : integer := integer(round(TX_STB_CNT_IDEAL + 0.25)) - 1; -- Round up starting for error > 0.25
+		constant TX_STB_SKIP_SECOND : boolean := TX_STB_SKIP_ERROR >= 0.25; -- Skip one clock cycle every other symbol to hit clock rate in between when the divider is close to x.5
+		signal tx_stb_cnt           : integer range 0 to TX_STB_CNT_MAX;
 
 		type tx_state_t is (IDLE, NLP, TX, IPG);
 		signal tx_state  : tx_state_t;
@@ -367,6 +371,9 @@ begin
 
 				if tx_stb_cnt = 0 then
 					tx_stb_cnt <= TX_STB_CNT_MAX;
+					if TX_STB_SKIP_SECOND and bit_stage = '1' then
+						tx_stb_cnt <= TX_STB_CNT_MAX - 1;
+					end if;
 				else
 					tx_stb_cnt <= tx_stb_cnt - 1;
 				end if;

trashernet/trashernet_phy_cdc.vhd

@@ -44,14 +44,14 @@ architecture rtl of trashernet_phy_cdc is
 	signal phy_phy_in  : phy_in_t;
 
 	-- Helper signals
-	signal rx_data_valid_i : std_logic;
+	signal rx_data_i : byte;
 
 begin
-	assert F_CLK_PHY > 2 * F_CLK report "F_CLK_PHY must be at least 2x F_CLK" severity failure;
-	
 	-- -------------------------------------------------------------------------
 	-- Drives: PHY clock domain
 	-- -------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+	-- Reset synchronizer for PHY
 	rstsync : process(phy_clk, rst) is
 	begin
 		if rst then
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ begin
 		end if;
 	end process rstsync;
 
+	-- Operate Trashernet in PHY clock domain
 	trashernet_phy_inst : entity work.trashernet_phy
 		generic map(
 			F_CLK => F_CLK_PHY
@@ -75,6 +76,22 @@ begin
 			tx_n    => tx_n
 		);
 
+	-- Latch data in PHY clock domain when valid is strobed
+	--  If the other clock domain is slower than the time it takes for the strobe to synchronize,
+	--  `phy_phy_out.rx_data` will already have shifted in the next bit and no longer be valid.
+	--  Therefore, we need to latch it here.
+	rxdff : process(phy_clk, rst) is
+	begin
+		if rst then
+			rx_data_i <= (others => '0');
+
+		elsif rising_edge(phy_clk) then
+			if phy_phy_out.rx_data_valid then
+				rx_data_i <= phy_phy_out.rx_data;
+			end if;
+		end if;
+	end process rxdff;
+
 	synchronizer_txen_inst : entity work.synchronizer
 		generic map(
 			SIZE => 5
@@ -98,18 +115,10 @@ begin
 			a_in  => phy_phy_out.rx_data_valid,
 			b_clk => clk,
 			b_rst => rst,
-			b_out => rx_data_valid_i
+			b_out => phy_out.rx_data_valid
 		);
 
-	rxdvff : process(clk, rst) is
+	phy_out.rx_data <= rx_data_i;       -- No need to synchronize in new clock domain as latched data has been stable for a while thanks to the delay in the _valid synchronizer
-	begin
-		if rst then
-			phy_out.rx_data_valid <= '0';
-		elsif rising_edge(clk) then
-			phy_out.rx_data_valid <= rx_data_valid_i;
-			phy_out.rx_data       <= phy_phy_out.rx_data; -- Data should be stable after the time it takes the _valid signal to go through the synchronizer
-		end if;
-	end process rxdvff;
 
 	cdc_strobe_rxer_inst : entity work.cdc_strobe
 		port map(