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 ...
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, ...
Business Wire

IAR Systems Boosts Capabilities for Designing and Verifying Embedded Applications Based on State Machines

UPPSALA, Sweden--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Version 7.1 of IAR visualSTATE adds an extensive amount of features for state machine-based design and formal verification. Today, IAR Systems® (STO:IARB) launches a ...
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 ...
Hackaday

Becoming A State Machine Design Mastermind

Imagine a robot with an all-around bump sensor. The response to the bump sensor activating depends on the previous state of the robot. If it had been going forward, a bump will send it backwards and ...