Need example of Verilog design with control flow hidden

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Hello,

I am working with behavioral Verilog design. Can anyone help me to get
an idea about how control flow is flattened out in Verilog and people
usually claim that control flow in Verilog is obscure and control flow 
is
encoded in Verilog in data-encoded way.

Can someone give me a small example (say a FSM, or a counter) and help 
me
to understand that how is control flow in Verilog is encoded in 
data-driven way?

I would appreciate any help in this regard.

Many thanks in advance.
Thank You.
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Rajdeep Mukherjee wrote:
> I would appreciate any help in this regard.

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Hello,

Many thanks for your reply.
I would like to clarify here that what I meant by “data-encoded way”. I 
am working with behavioral synthesizable subset of Verilog that allows 
control-flow statements like if-else and switch(case) but does not allow 
repeat, for, while, continue statements. So, in a sense, the behavioral 
code structure in Verilog has a flattened control-flow structure in it 
(without these loop constructs). This is easy to see because you can 
model the effect of while or for loops using only if-then-else and 
switch(case), but in a data-encoded way.

So, the FSM examples in Verilog has the same modeling with flattened 
control-flow. Can you please give me some more insight or references on 
this. From your experience, did you come across any behavioral Verilog 
designs that has an explicit control-flow structure which is not 
flattened.

Also, please inform whether any behavioral synthesis tool allow loop 
constructs like for, while, repeat, an forever?

Many Thanks in advance.
Looking forward.

Regards,
Rajdeep

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