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Isac Hardware Primitives Validation // ALH-2026-T2

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Cycle-accurate testbench data from the Isac Hardware Primitives validation suite (ALH-2026-T2). Every figure below is a measured, deterministic RTL path — fixed latency, zero jitter, and no probabilistic inference in the veto chain.

TOTAL VETO LATENCY

28 Cycles (<2.8µs)

Confirmed zero-variance execution @ 10 MHz — Isac Hardware Primitives ALH-2026-T2.

DETERMINISTIC MARGIN

22 Cycles Headroom

Fixed budget of 50 cycles (5.0µs) leaves 44% guardband for PVT variation.

HARDWARE CRYPTO OVERHEAD

13 Cycles Total

SHA-512 (8 cycles) + Ed25519 hardware ladder (5 cycles), fused in parallel with resolve.

RESOLVE & BUS TIMING

7 Cycles Total

L(x) Deterministic Resolve (3 cycles) + Bus & System Overhead (4 cycles).

— VETO LATENCY & RESPONSE BENCHMARK (LOG SCALE) —

CLOUD AI / OS SECURITY RESPONSE≈ 1,500 ms (1.5s)

Probabilistic & unstable — network round-trip, inference variance

TRADITIONAL SOFTWARE FIREWALL / KERNEL DRIVER≈ 120 ms

OS dependent — scheduler drift, interrupt coalescing

ACK VHDL SUBSTRATE FLOOR RANGE1.6 µs – 2.8 µs

Substrate deterministic — fixed-latency RTL, zero jitter

DETERMINISTIC THRESHOLD: 3.0µs — SOFTWARE PATHS MISS BY 4–5 ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE

— CYCLE-ACCURATE EXECUTION PIPELINE —

The 28-cycle deterministic path is partitioned into fixed-stage hardware primitives. Each stage completes in a known cycle count, giving a worst-case bound of 50 cycles (5.0µs) including PVT guardband.

Pipeline Stage	Cycles	Function
Ingestion	8	Bus-layer signal capture, register staging, and trigger arbitration.
L(x) Deterministic Resolve	3	Hardwired policy evaluation; no scheduler, no kernel, no inference.
Parallel SHA-512 Pipeline	8	Cryptographic hash of veto manifest, deterministic throughput.
Ed25519 Hardware Ladder	5	PUF-backed non-repudiable signature in fixed time.
Bus & System Overhead	4	AXI4 handoff, CDC synchronization, and clamp assertion.
Total Path	28 cycles	Budget: 50 cycles (5.0µs) — 22 cycles headroom

— TARGET SILICON RESOURCE & SYNTHESIS —

Post-synthesis utilization for the VHDL-2008 Soft IP Base Stack plus one protected bus domain across commercial FPGA and pre-silicon ASIC targets. STNL-1 Interposer Logic figures are conservative gate-level estimates.

Target Platform	Logic	Flip-Flops	Memory	Max Freq
AMD Zynq UltraScale+ FPGA (VHDL Soft IP)	3.2k LUT	4.1k FF	2.5 BRAM	260 MHz
Lattice CertusPro-NX FPGA (VHDL Soft IP)	3.8k LUT	4.4k FF	3.0 EBR	210 MHz
Microchip PolarFire SoC (VHDL Soft IP)	4.2k 4K LUT4	4.8k FF	2.0 uSRAM	190 MHz
Pre-Silicon ASIC Target (STNL-1 Interposer Logic)	< 12k gates	—	—	> 500 MHz

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Note: Cycle counts are from Isac Hardware Primitives ALH-2026-T2, captured in ModelSim/Vivado at 10 MHz reference clock. Silicon utilization reflects worst-case conservative place-and-route results on AMD UltraScale+, Lattice CertusPro-NX, Microchip PolarFire, and pre-silicon ASIC emulation targets.