Computer-aided-design platform for sequential systems

In this paper, we describe a computer-aided-design (CAD) platform that lets the users conceptually design, simulate and test a state machine. This platform allows the users to graphically specify synchronous sequential systems expressed as algorithmic state machine (ASM) charts and then produces logic circuit diagrams with actual components specification. Using a graphic editor, ASM charts are created by placing and combining objects on the screen such as states, transitions, inputs, outputs, and text. The graphic editor provides a complete object-oriented drawing environment with standard drawing tools as well as specific functions tailored for ASM chart's creation. Once an ASM chart is validated, the CAD platform relieves the designer of the many intermediate tedious steps required for the final minimal logic circuit realization of the synchronous system defined.