COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN OF ALGORITHMIC STATE MACHINE

Abstract

The Algorithmic State Machine (ASM) is a method used to solve more complex industrial problems. The basic advantage of this method is to convert these problems to simpler circuits which consist only from the basic elements which are AND, OR and NOT gates, which can be implemented easily by using the Programmable Logic Array (PLA) circuits. The entry variables (number of inputs and states) for such problems are large, this made the theoretical (manual) solution is hard to solve. This research constructs a computer package called (ASM-CAD) to make the entire design using C++ and TC++ programming languages. Key Words: Algorithmic State Machine (ASM) method.Programmable Logic Array (PLA) circuit. Quine-McCluskey is a programmable method. 1