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Canonical Implementation

  In Section 4.3 we looked at the general mathematical description of a state machine, of Moore and Mealey types. Figure 68 gives corresponding block diagrams, referred to as the canonical implementation of state machines.


  
Figure 68: Canonical state machine implementations (clock not shown).
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See Wakerly, Section 7.3 (pp550) for additional information.



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