From: whitequark Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2019 17:10:13 +0000 (+0000) Subject: manual: explain the purpose of `sync always`. X-Git-Tag: working-ls180~1226^2 X-Git-Url: https://git.libre-soc.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=9251c000e86c1d7e757c89720f729ac984aaf901;p=yosys.git manual: explain the purpose of `sync always`. --- diff --git a/manual/CHAPTER_Overview.tex b/manual/CHAPTER_Overview.tex index 1a25c477f..3009bf2c0 100644 --- a/manual/CHAPTER_Overview.tex +++ b/manual/CHAPTER_Overview.tex @@ -331,8 +331,9 @@ to update {\tt \textbackslash{}q}. An RTLIL::Process is a container for zero or more RTLIL::SyncRule objects and exactly one RTLIL::CaseRule object, which is called the {\it root case}. -An RTLIL::SyncRule object contains an (optional) synchronization condition -(signal and edge-type) and zero or more assignments (RTLIL::SigSig). +An RTLIL::SyncRule object contains an (optional) synchronization condition (signal and edge-type) and zero or +more assignments (RTLIL::SigSig). The {\tt always} synchronization condition is used to break combinatorial +loops when a latch should be inferred instead. An RTLIL::CaseRule is a container for zero or more assignments (RTLIL::SigSig) and zero or more RTLIL::SwitchRule objects. An RTLIL::SwitchRule objects is a