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Moore MachineIn the theory of computation, a Moore machine is a finite state automaton where the outputs are determined by the current state alone (and not on the input). The state diagram for a Moore machine will include an output signal for each state. Compare with a Mealy machine, which maps transitions in the machine to outputs. The name Moore machine comes from that of their promoter: E. F. Moore, a state machine pioneer, who wrote Gedanken-experiments on Sequential Machines, pp 129 – 153, Automata Studies, Annals of Mathematical Studies, no. 34, Princeton University Press, Princeton, N. J., 1956 Most electronics are designed as clocked sequential systems. Clocked sequential systems are a restricted form of Moore machine where the state changes only when the global clock signal changes. Typically the current state is stored in flip-flops, and global clock signal is connected to the "clock" input of the flip-flops. Clocked sequential systems are one way to solve metastability problems. Formal Definition A Moore machine can be defined a 6-tuple { Q, Σ, Δ, δ, λ, } consisting of
- a finite set of states ( Q )
- a finite set called the input alphabet ( Σ )
- a finite set called the output alphabet ( Δ )
- a transition function (δ : Q x Σ → Q ) mapping a state and an input to the next state
- an output function ( λ : Q → Δ ) mapping each state to the output alphabet.
- a start state
The number of states in a Moore machine will be greater than or equal to the number of states in the corresponding Mealy machine.
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