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authorClifford Wolf <clifford@clifford.at>2019-07-03 10:45:29 +0200
committerDavid Shah <dave@ds0.me>2019-07-09 18:46:58 +0100
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Merge pull request #1154 from whitequark/manual-sync-always
manual: explain the purpose of `sync always`
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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