Hardware Applications
Ferdinand Wagner · Auerbach Publications eBooks · 2006
The book is about state machines in software. But state machines were known and used before software emerged. Especially, designers of digital hardware systems used, from the beginning, Automata Theory methods in their work; among others, they used state machines for constructing sequential circuits. Considering the closeness of hardware and software we have decided to insert a few pages that should give a reader at least an impression of hardware design based on state machines. The complete knowledge about the use of state machines in designing digital systems can be found in several publications; the books of Commer and Sunggu are examples of useful references.