Most embedded systems are reactive by nature. They measure certain properties of their environment with sensors and react on changes. For example, they display something, move a motor, or send a ...

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 ...

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.