It is assumed that the reader has a good understanding of Verilog HDL; however, the interested reader will find that Chapters 6, 7, and 8 of Minns and Elliott (2008) provide a very good account of Verilog HDL. Wiley make it possible to purchase these chapters on request for a small fee.
Note that in this version of the book the reader is given help to assist them as they progress through this book.
Indeed, Chapters 3, 4, 5, and 7 as well as some of the appendices include examples of FSMs with Verilog HDL for illustrated examples. Use is also made of the Digital logic simulation program Logisim to help the reader become familiar with using FSMs in the development of their work. This Logisim Simulator is freely available throughout the world to run on Windows, OS X, and Linux Operating Systems (see Appendix A2 for details).
The chapters are organized as follows.
Chapter 1 covers the introductory ideas of what FSMs are and how to represent them using a state diagram.
Chapter 2 covers the use of external devices and how to control them with an FSM.
Chapter 3 looks at how to synthesize FSMs using T type flip‐flops, then D type flip‐flops.
Chapter 4 introduces asynchronous FSM design.
Chapter 5 looks at the use of the one hot method of synchronous FSM design applied to clocked FSM designs.
Chapter 6, a new chapter, looks at applying an FSM to event‐driven systems, and considers one hot ideas and the one hot method.
Chapter 7 deals with Petri nets and how they can be used to synthesize electronic circuits using both sequential and parallel state machine design. This allows FSM‐based systems to support both sequential and parallel structures.
There are six appendices covering the necessary aspects of FSM systems that the reader needs to understand in the support of the FSM work. These are written in a more formal manner (i.e. not using frame method or programmed learning).
Appendix A1 looks at the logic gates and Boolean algebra used in this book. This should help those readers who may not have done much work on Boolean algebra for some time.
Appendix A2 is a tutorial on how to use the simulation programs and the Verilog Hardware Descriptive Language (HDL) with the SynaptiCAD system as well as a short introduction on the use of the gate logic simulator Logisim.
Appendix A3 covers the use of counters and shift registers as used in a number of the tutorials in this book. The reader should find them very useful.
Appendix A4 covers the use of behavioural Verilog HDL with some examples to help the reader become familiar with its use in the design of FSM‐based systems.
Appendix A5 looks at the way an FSM can be designed using digital hardware that can be programmed to produce programmable FSM systems. Tutorial examples are introduced to illustrate how this works.
Appendix A6 looks at how a rotation direction indicator can be implemented using an event‐driven FSM.
This book provides enough information for the reader to learn how to design their own FSMs and simulate them using the hardware descriptive language Verilog HDL.
I hope that the content of this book is both interesting and useful, and that it helps readers to learn more about digital system design using FSMs. I have used these techniques for many years, in lectures and when working with companies, and have found them really helpful.
Peter Minns BSc(h) PhD CENG MIET (retired)
Access to Wiley Web for my Verilog HDL and Logisim files:
www.wiley.com\go\minns\digitalsystemdesign
Acknowledgements
I would like to thank all those who helped in the proofreading of this book, in particular those who have looked at specific chapters and especially Kathleen Minns for her help in the proofreading of the entire manuscript.
Also thanks to Ian Elliott for introducing the Logisim digital simulation program.
Special thanks go to my commissioning editor Sandra Grayson and managing editor Juliet Booker for their kind support and guidance in the preparation of this book as well as the Wiley publishing team.
Thanks are also extended to: Dr C. Burch – Logisim, IET Digital Library, Oxford Publishing Limited, and Sage Publishing, USA for their various permissions, and these are referred to in the relevant sections of the book.
Any errors are, of course, entirely the responsibility of the author.
About the Companion Website
This book is accompanied by a companion website
www.wiley.com/go/minns/digitalsystemdesign
This website includes:
An Index for Logisim Circuits
An Index for Verilog Listings
Guide to Supplementary Resources
Verilog HDL
Logisim Files
