A State-Machine Synthesizer—SMS

  • Authors:
  • Douglas W. Brown

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • DAC '81 Proceedings of the 18th Design Automation Conference
  • Year:
  • 1981

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Abstract

Much of the work in implementing a state machine involves tedious calculations that require no creativity. This report describes the development of a digital-circuit synthesis program that helps reduce the tedium. SMS accepts a high-level description of a state machine and returns equations for implementation that assume a sum-of-products next-state and output functions and that also assume JK or D flip-flops for memory.