Large system-on-chip (SoC) designs contain many finite state machines (FSMs) that interact with data paths, memories, and other components. Although FSMs are critical building blocks many designers ...

Ensuring the reliability and performance of complex digital systems has two fundamental aspects: functional verification and digital design. Digital Design predominantly focuses on the architecture of ...

The functional verification process involves the development of constrained random test cases, and the technique of coverage driven verification [1] to produce, and analyze the simulation results.

Designing a synchronous finite state machine (FSM) is a common task for a digital logic engineer. This paper discusses a variety of issues regarding FSM design using Verilog and VHDL coding styles.