On 01/05/2011 16:34, Herbert Graf wrote:
> On Sun, 2011-05-01 at 05:31 +0100, Oli Glaser wrote:
>> >  On 30/04/2011 19:34, V G wrote:
>>> >  >     But I don't understand what a "reg" does and
>>> >  >  what it really does inside the chip.
>> > =20
>> >  A reg is short for register, e.g. a place to store bits, usually one =
or
>> >  more D type flip-flops.
> Actually that is not really true. reg does indeed stand for register,
> but it doesn't necessarily mean storage in synthesized hardware. What it
> actually means is the simulator running that code needs storage to
> implement the logic writing that net.

Yes, sorry - what I wrote was misleading. I was trying to keep it as=20
simple as possible by painting a rough picture, but this was probably a=20
bad idea in this case. I did say "usually" though.. :-)






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