• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics
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• v.23 no.2
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• pp.269-277
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• 1986

This paper proposes a new algorithmic state machine(ASM) chart and a new hardware description for automatic logic design of VLSI. To describe the behavioral characteristics of the design specification, the conventional ASM chart is modified, and a new hardware description language, SDL, is proposed. The SDL is one-to-one correspondent to the proposed ASM chart symbol, and can be used in a hierachical design of VLSI. As a design example, we obtain a logic circuit diagram of gate lebel utilizing a SDL hardware compiler after drawing an ASM chart and describing in SDL.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.75-86
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• 2013

This paper presents a technique to implement embedded systems using interrupts of the one-chip microcontroller with many peripherals based on a multiple finite state machines model. The multiple finite state machine model utilizes the structure of FSMD used for hardware design and the features of flow control by interrupts. The main finite state machine corresponds to the main program and the sub-state machines corresponds to the interrupt subroutines. Therefore, interrupts from the peripherals can be processed immediately in the sub-state machines. The request and reply variables are used to interface between the finite state machines. Additional operating system is not necessary for the context switching between the main state machine and the sub-state machine, because the flow-control caused by interrupt can be replaced with the switching. An embedded system modeled on multiple finite state machine with ASM charts can be easily implemented by the conversion of ASM charts into C-language programs. This implementation technique can be easily adopted to the hardware oriented embedded systems because of the detail description of the model and the fast response to the interrupt events in the sub-state machine.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics
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• v.26 no.4
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• pp.127-137
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• 1989

This paper describes hardware flow-chart and SDL-II, which are register-transfer level, to automate logic design. Hardware flow-chart specifies behavioral and structural charaterstics of generalized FSMs (Finite State Machine) usin the modified ASM (Algorithmic State Machnine) design techniques. SDL-II describes the hardware flow-chat which specifies the control and the data path of ASIC(Application Specific IC). Also many examples are enumerated to illustrate the features of hardware flow-chart and SDL-II.