Power on Reset & state machines

Ok, I understand what you are saying. I looked at my xxx.map.rpt & it says the State I want it to initialize to out of power-up is encoded to all 0's:

Info: State "|CPLD_A_test2|foo:SM1|CURRENT_STATE.wait_state" uses code string "0000000000"

But That isnt a "reset state", I dont have one. If I were to make a reset state, how would it know when to transition to my initial "wait_state"?& why do you need one? my state machine code looks like this:

process(clk)

begin

if clk = '1' and clk'event then

if sreset = '0' then --This is my external reset

CURRENT_STATE <= wait_state;

..

..

end if;

else case CURRENT_STATE is

when wait => do your stuff

It sounds you are saying "most designs" use an external power on reset to drive DEV_Clrn, but I am trying to get around that.

appreciate your patience!

thanks,

ambien