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12 years ago

Is this Code Mealy or Moore?

I found this code for a sequence detector on the internet, but I'm confused as to whether it's a mealy or moore circuit, because my instructor gave me a different example of a mealy code. Thanks, Mik...
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12 years ago

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What is a registered output?

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Basically, if flip flop or register (more than one flip flop) is used to store the output it is called registered output.In case of your pdf,output z is not registered,it is combinatorial.

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How can you tell how much latency there is?

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Latency can be calculated by number of clock cycle require to transfer input to output.In case of your pdf, if we consider next_state is input and state is output(This is for example only.Because these two signals are not the part of IO port ) then there will be a latency of 1 to reach the value of next_state to state signal.