For correct behaviour of synchronous edge-triggered hardware, the progagation delay of D-types must be greater than their hold time.
Question : How can we ensuse this in a technology-neutral model that does not have any specific numerical delays ?
Answer: Hardware simulators commonly support the compute/commit or `signal' paradigm for non-blocking updates.
Two examples:
reg A, B; always @(posedge ck) begin A <= B; B <= A; end | ![]() | // Separate example reg zz; reg [2:0] q; always @(posedge ck) begin zz <= ~zz; if (zz) q <= q + 3'd1; // Prev line sees old zz end |