Phase-1 (d1 output) lacked the 'need_more' guard that phase-2 (d2) had, so
when the 256th accepted coefficient was a d1 whose group then advanced, the
FSM could fire one extra valid_o after last_o for certain seeds (e.g. KAT
count=0 rho, seed i=0/j=1 emitted 257 pulses). In mlkem_top KeyGen this
trailing pulse leaked into the next poly's index 0, shifting the stream.
Fix: gate phase-1 d1 output with 'd1_acc_r && need_more' (mirrors phase-2).
Applied to both sample_ntt_sync and sample_ntt_sync_shared.
Standalone TB had a coverage blind spot (stopped reading at 256, never
checked valid_o stayed low after last_o). Added a regression assertion:
counts spurious post-last_o pulses and fails if any. Verified the assertion
catches the bug on a reverted-fix copy (3 spurious) and passes on the fix.
Verified:
- 40-seed audit (sync) + 24-seed audit (shared): all exactly 256 pulses,
last_o@256, zero post-last pulses.
- Verilator vs hashlib oracle: 1536/1536 (no real coeff dropped).
- Full framework regression: 4334/4334.
- mlkem_top KeyGen Stage 2c: 2048/2048 A_hat+s+e coeffs exact.
sample_ntt was non-conformant: both RTL and the test reference re-ran
keccak_p after every 3-byte squeeze instead of consuming the full
1344-bit SHAKE-128 rate. Only coeff[0] matched a standard sampler, so
the generated A matrix would not interoperate with any compliant ML-KEM.
- sample_ntt_sync{,_shared}.v: walk all 56 groups of the rate block via
grp_ptr_r; re-permute only when the block is exhausted. Verified
256/256 against ml-kem-r Rust sample_ntt on two seeds, and 1536/1536
in the Verilator framework (runtime ~128x faster per poly).
- gen_vectors.py: use a self-contained hashlib.shake_128 oracle.
sha3 testbench fixes (all now self-check hash_o against verified vectors,
cross-checked with hashlib and ml-kem-r mlkem_G):
- tb_sha3_xsim_simple.v: test G/H/J modes, not just G.
- tb_keccak_core_xsim.v: correct the wrong EXPECTED_STATE constant
(RTL was correct; lane0 = 0xf1258f7940e1dde7 per FIPS 202).
- tb_sha3_xsim.v: read expected file and self-check per vector; add
vectors/g_basic_{input,expected}.hex (3 G / 2 H / 2 J).
Remove stale sha3_chain test (its RTL was deleted in 1cace51) and its
README references. Extend .gitignore for XSIM artifacts and result dumps.
