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@@ -205,6 +205,12 @@ Verilog Attributes and non-standard features
temporary variable within an always block. This is mostly used internally
by yosys to synthesize verilog functions and access arrays.
+- The "placeholder" attribute on modules is used to mark empty stub modules
+ that have the same ports as the real thing but do not contain information
+ on the internal configuration. This modules are only used by the synthesis
+ passes to identify input and output ports of cells. The verilog backend
+ also does not output placeholder modules on default.
+
- In addition to the (* ... *) attribute syntax, yosys supports
the non-standard {* ... *} attribute syntax to set default attributes
for everything that comes after the {* ... *} statement. (Reset