Add ABC FAQ to "help abc"

Signed-off-by: Clifford Wolf <clifford@clifford.at>
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Clifford Wolf 2018-05-04 21:59:31 +02:00
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@ -1388,8 +1388,12 @@ struct AbcPass : public Pass {
log("When neither -liberty nor -lut is used, the Yosys standard cell library is\n");
log("loaded into ABC before the ABC script is executed.\n");
log("\n");
log("This pass does not operate on modules with unprocessed processes in it.\n");
log("(I.e. the 'proc' pass should be used first to convert processes to netlists.)\n");
log("Note that this is a logic optimization pass within Yosys that is calling ABC\n");
log("internally. This is not going to \"run ABC on your design\". It will instead run\n");
log("ABC on logic snippets extracted from your design. You will not get any useful\n");
log("output when passing an ABC script that writes a file. Instead write your full\n");
log("design as BLIF file with write_blif and the load that into ABC externally if\n");
log("you want to use ABC to convert your design into another format.\n");
log("\n");
log("[1] http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~alanmi/abc/\n");
log("\n");