A D flip-flop is a circuit that stores a bit and is updated periodically, at the (usually) positive edge of a clock signal.
D flip-flops are created by the logic synthesizer when a clocked always block is used A D flip-flop is the simplest form of "blob of combinational logic followed by a flip-flop" where the combinational logic portion is just a wire.
Create a single D flip-flop.
module top_module (
input clk, // Clocks are used in sequential circuits
input d,
output reg q );//
always@ (posedge clk)
begin
q <= d;
end
endmodule