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authorClifford Wolf <clifford@clifford.at>2018-12-22 20:12:18 +0100
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Merge pull request #757 from whitequark/manual_mem
manual: document $meminit cell and memory_* passes
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@@ -428,8 +428,8 @@ memory object has the following properties:
All read accesses to the memory are transformed to {\tt \$memrd} cells and all write accesses to
{\tt \$memwr} cells by the language frontend. These cells consist of independent read- and write-ports
-to the memory. The \B{MEMID} parameter on these cells is used to link them together and to the
-RTLIL::Memory object they belong to.
+to the memory. Memory initialization is transformed to {\tt \$meminit} cells by the language frontend.
+The \B{MEMID} parameter on these cells is used to link them together and to the RTLIL::Memory object they belong to.
The rationale behind using separate cells for the individual ports versus
creating a large multiport memory cell right in the language frontend is that