I missed this year’s Maker Faire in New York City, but just before the show, the CTO of Arduino came to town and talked with Machine Design. Massimo Banzi, co-founder of the Arduino project, is an ...

[Tony] has developed a method of using a state machine to validate keypad inputs. His method checks the commands character by character as they are entered in by a 16 button keypad. State machines are ...

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.