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diff --git a/manual/CHAPTER_Intro.tex b/manual/CHAPTER_Intro.tex index 675d2402..f735d46b 100644 --- a/manual/CHAPTER_Intro.tex +++ b/manual/CHAPTER_Intro.tex @@ -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. |