EDN

Debouncing Push-Buttons Using a State Machine Approach

As opposed to conditional flag-centric code, a state machine diagram presents a very clear view of the design, and so provides a good example to students. As opposed to conditional flag-centric code, ...
Electronic Design

Building State Machines on Linux

How to turn graphical state-machine models into C, C++, C#, or Java code. Why using a tool like Visual State is better than building a state machine in source code. Artificial intelligence and machine ...
EDN

APEC 2014: Digital Power Control architectures—The State Machine

This year at APEC 2014 I saw many interesting trends. One of the key ones was the increased use of State machine control for Digital power. I saw this begin last year at APEC and now it is in full ...
Embedded

Programming embedded systems: input-driven state machines

The interest in state machines started in the 1950s when George Moore and Edward Mealy published seminal papers on formal methods of designing digital circuits, which generate outputs based on the ...
Electronic Design

UML: A Next-Generation Language For SoC Design

The Unified Modeling Language (UML) has already received considerable acceptance in the domain of telecommunication and automotive systems, and now we see emerging activities in the field of SoC ...
Business Wire

Aldec Provides Finite State Machine Coverage for Verification of Safety-Critical FPGAs

HENDERSON, Nev.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aldec, Inc. announced today the latest release of its mixed-language, FPGA Design & Simulation platform, Active-HDL™ 10.4, providing Finite State Machine (FSM) ...