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, ...
Embedded

Programming embedded systems: what is a state machine?

This installment starts a new segment of lessons about state machines. The subject conceptually continues the event-driven theme and is one of my favorites [1,2]. Today, you’ll learn what event-driven ...
Embedded

Embedded State Machine Implementation

Many embedded software applications are natural candidates for mechanization as a state machine. A program that must sequence a series of actions, or handle inputs differently depending on what mode ...
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 ...
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) ...