The style of your initial Verilog description has a major effect on the characteristics of the resulting gate-level design synthesized by Foundation Express. The organization and style of a Verilog description determines the basic architecture of your design. Because Foundation Express automates most of the logic-level decisions required in your design, you can concentrate on architectural tradeoffs.
You can use Foundation Express to make some of the high-level architectural decisions. Certain Verilog constructs are well suited to synthesis. To make these decisions and use the constructs, you need to become familiar with the concepts covered in the following sections of this chapter.
