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14 years ago

Moore and Mealy

I have been analysing the difference between implementing an identical system using a Moore and a Mealy state machine. The Moore has the advantage of being simpler to implement and more im...
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Usual Moore machines don't have necessarily synchronous outputs, see e.g. the Moore HDL template in Quartus. It assigns outputs in a combinational case structure which can have glitches as well.

The glitches will be only noticed when processing the state machine output asynchronously or using them as external outputs.

The basic Moore machine description in literature however doesn't exactly specify how outputs are generated. You can write a Moore machine in a single synchronous process, that assigns both state variable and outputs to registers.