Blocking Statements: A blocking statement must be executed before the execution of the statements that follow it in a sequential block. In the example below the first time statement to get executed is a = b followed by

Nonblocking Statements: Nonblocking statements allow you to schedule assignments without blocking the procedural flow. You can use the nonblocking procedural statement whenever you want to make several register assignments within the same time step without regard to order or dependence upon each other. It means that nonblocking statements resemble actual hardware more than blocking assignments.

  1 module block_nonblock();
  2 reg a, b, c, d , e, f ;
  3 
  4 // Blocking assignments
  5 initial begin
  6   a = #10 1'b1;// The simulator assigns 1 to a at time 10
  7   b = #20 1'b0;// The simulator assigns 0 to b at time 30
  8   c = #40 1'b1;// The simulator assigns 1 to c at time 70
  9 end
 10 
 11 // Nonblocking assignments
 12 initial begin
 13   d <=  #10  1'b1;// The simulator assigns 1 to d at time 10
 14   e <=  #20  1'b0;// The simulator assigns 0 to e at time 20
 15   f  <=  #40  1'b1;// The simulator assigns 1 to f at time 40
 16 end
 17   
 18 endmodule

  1 module blocking (clk,a,c);
  2 input clk;
  3 input a;
  4 output c;
  5  
  6 wire clk;
  7 wire a;
  8 reg c;
  9 reg b;
 10   
 11 always @ (posedge clk )
 12 begin
 13  b = a;
 14  c = b;
 15 end
 16    
 17 endmodule

Synthesis Output

  1 module nonblocking (clk,a,c);
  2 input clk;
  3 input a;
  4 output c;
  5  
  6 wire clk;
  7 wire a;
  8 reg c;
  9 reg b;
 10   
 11 always @ (posedge clk )
 12 begin
 13   b <= a;
 14   c <= b;
 15 end
 16    
 17 endmodule

Synthesis Output

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