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authorAhmed Irfan <ahmedirfan1983@gmail.com>2014-09-22 11:35:04 +0200
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Merge branch 'master' of https://github.com/cliffordwolf/yosys into btor
added case for memwr cell that is used in muxes (same cell is used more than one time) corrected bug for xnor and logic_not added pmux cell translation Conflicts: backends/btor/btor.cc
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@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ researched field. All the information required to write such tools has been open
available for a long time, and it is therefore likely that a FOSS HDL synthesis tool
with a feature-complete Verilog or VHDL front end must exist which can be used as a basis for a custom RTL synthesis tool.
-Due to the authors preference for Verilog over VHDL it has been decided early
+Due to the author's preference for Verilog over VHDL it was decided early
on to go for Verilog instead of VHDL\footnote{A quick investigation into FOSS
VHDL tools yielded similar grim results for FOSS VHDL synthesis tools.}.
So the existing FOSS Verilog synthesis tools were evaluated (see
@@ -56,12 +56,12 @@ is discussed in this document.
\section{Structure of this Document}
-The structure of this document is a follows:
+The structure of this document is as follows:
Chapter~\ref{chapter:intro} is this introduction.
Chapter~\ref{chapter:basics} covers a short introduction to the world of HDL
-synthesis. Basic principles and the terminology is outlined in this chapter.
+synthesis. Basic principles and the terminology are outlined in this chapter.
Chapter~\ref{chapter:approach} gives the quickest possible outline to how the
problem of implementing a HDL synthesis tool is approached in the case of
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ Yosys source code. The chapter concludes with an example loadable module
for Yosys.
Chapters~\ref{chapter:verilog}, \ref{chapter:opt}, and \ref{chapter:techmap}
-cover three improtant pieces of the synthesis pileline: The Verilog frontend,
+cover three important pieces of the synthesis pipeline: The Verilog frontend,
the optimization passes and the technology mapping to the target architecture,
respectively.