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Thermal monitoring: surface chip thermal meter + health bucket#103

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Adds a read-only thermal probe across the whole Jaguar family (RTL8812AU / 8811AU / 8814AU / 8821AU) so an operator can attribute a TX drop to the chip heating up.

The thermal meter (RF path-A reg 0x42, bits [15:10]) was already sampled inside the 8812A TX-power-tracking loop — but only there: gated to CHIP_8812, logged at debug, and never surfaced as health. This exposes it independently of the power-track correction, on every chip.

How

  • RadioManagementModule::ReadThermalStatus() — reads RF[A]0x42 standalone (no chip gate, no BB-swing write) and pairs it with the EFUSE baseline → ThermalStatus{raw, baseline, delta, valid}. Path A is readable on all members.
  • ThermalBucket() — classifies delta into cool/warm/hot/critical. The meter has no calibrated °C transfer function on the AU family (it's an RF/PA-bias tracking index), so the health signal is deliberately bucketed rather than presented as a fake temperature.
  • RtlJaguarDeviceGetThermalStatus() (synchronous, owning-thread safe) plus an opt-in background poller (start_thermal_poller / get_thermal_snapshot) mirroring the existing queue-depth poller, with the same shared-handle concurrency caveat documented.
  • Demos — honour DEVOURER_THERMAL_POLL_MS / DEVOURER_THERMAL_WARN_DELTA, emitting <devourer-thermal>raw=.. baseline=.. delta=.. status=.. lines. TX demo reads inline on its own thread (no USB contention); RX demo uses the background poller. A one-shot warn fires when delta crosses the threshold and re-arms on cooldown.
  • tests/thermal_hwcheck.sh — per-chip hardware smoke test.

Jaguar-1 has no automatic hard thermal TX shutdown, so a rising delta is an early warning that the PA is heating and TX power is being backed off — not a shutdown-reason readout.

Verification

  • Build green, ctest green (stream_stdin_binary).
  • Hardware-tested on 8812AU / 8814AU / 8821AU: the meter reads live, delta tracks PA heat from a cold start (e.g. 8812 cold delta=+0 cool → sustained TX equilibrium delta=+10 warm, ~17.5k frames confirmed sending), and the bucket + warn move correctly with physical state (including reading cool right after a physical detach). An 8811AU rides the same code path automatically (none on the bus to test).

🤖 Generated with Claude Code

Add a read-only thermal probe across the whole Jaguar family so an
operator can attribute a TX drop to the chip heating up.

The thermal meter (RF[A] reg 0x42, bits [15:10]) was already sampled
inside the 8812A TX-power-tracking loop, but only there: gated to
CHIP_8812, logged at debug, and never surfaced as health. This exposes
it independently of the power-track correction.

- RadioManagementModule::ReadThermalStatus() reads RF[A][0x42] standalone
  (no chip gate, no BB-swing write) and pairs it with the EFUSE baseline,
  returning a ThermalStatus{raw, baseline, delta, valid}. Works on
  8812/8811/8814/8821 (path A is readable on all members).
- ThermalBucket() classifies the delta into cool/warm/hot/critical. The
  meter has no calibrated degC transfer function on the AU family (it is
  an RF/PA-bias tracking index), so the health signal is deliberately
  bucketed rather than presented as a fake temperature.
- RtlJaguarDevice exposes GetThermalStatus() (synchronous, owning-thread
  safe) plus an opt-in background poller (start_thermal_poller /
  get_thermal_snapshot) mirroring the queue-depth poller, with the same
  shared-handle concurrency caveat.
- Demos honour DEVOURER_THERMAL_POLL_MS / DEVOURER_THERMAL_WARN_DELTA and
  emit <devourer-thermal> lines; the TX demo reads inline on its own
  thread (no USB contention), the RX demo uses the background poller. A
  one-shot warn fires when delta crosses the threshold and re-arms on
  cooldown.
- tests/thermal_hwcheck.sh: per-chip hardware smoke test.

Jaguar-1 has no automatic hard thermal TX shutdown, so a rising delta is
an early warning that the PA is heating and TX power is being backed off,
not a shutdown-reason readout.

Verified on hardware (8812/8814/8821): meter reads live, delta tracks PA
heat from a cold start through to a warm/hot steady state, and the bucket
+ warn move correctly with physical state. Build green, ctest green.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
@josephnef josephnef merged commit b4b9f52 into master Jun 24, 2026
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