Merge the exi and sync domains into one

bba_top wired ClockSignal("sync") to ClockSignal("exi"), so the two "domains"
were always the same physical clock net.  Everything between them -- six
AsyncFIFOs and three PulseSynchronizers -- was pure latency and logic for a
crossing that did not exist.

  * the six AsyncFIFOs become plain SyncFIFOs
  * the three PulseSynchronizers become wires
  * BBARegisterFile and ExiCapture move from m.d.exi to m.d.sync
  * the exi ClockDomain is gone; HFOSC drives sync directly

The SPRAM request write port is also combinational now.  A registered w_en
costs a 24 MHz cycle, and the protocol's turnaround byte (~296 ns at 27 MHz)
has no cycles to spare.

Passing: bba_register_file, spram_arbiter, rx_frame_assembler, tx_frame_drain,
w5100_parallel_master, uart_shell, status_panel.  bba_top at EXI_HALF=1
(27 MHz, the hardware rate) passes device ID, PAR read/write, NWAYS, RWP and
the 34-byte TX frame.

STILL OPEN: the SPRAM/DMA read is one byte late.  Removing the CDC was not
enough -- the remaining round trip is the rx crossing (exiclk->sync, a REAL
CDC, ~125 ns) plus FSM decode plus the spram_req FIFO, arbiter, SPRAM access
and spram_rsp FIFO, which still exceeds the turnaround byte.  Next step: now
that it is all one domain, drop the two SPRAM FIFOs entirely and give the
register file a direct request/grant port on the arbiter -- that should take
the round trip to ~2-3 cycles and fit.

exi_capture and exi_j4 testbenches still assert removed behaviour (the CS-fall
flush and the old MISO slot timing) and need rewriting for the clocked engine.
Still WIP -- do not flash.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@@ -183,7 +183,6 @@ if __name__ == "__main__":
unplug(ctx, top.j4)
sim = Simulator(top)
sim.add_clock(Period(MHz=24), domain="exi")
sim.add_clock(Period(MHz=24), domain="sync")
sim.add_testbench(testbench)
with sim.write_vcd("exi_j4_merge.vcd"):