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Synchronous finite state machines are very important for digital sequential designs. Among other important aspects, they represent a powerful way for synchronizing hardware components so that these components may cooperate adequately in the fulfillment of the main objective of the hardware design. In this paper, we propose an evolutionary methodology to solve one of the problems related to the design of finite state machines. We solve the state assignment NP-complete problem using a quantum inspired evolutionary algorithm. This is motivated by the fact that with an optimised state assignment one can physically implement the state machine using a minimal hardware area and response time.
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Araujo, M.P.M., Nedjah, N., de Macedo Mourelle, L. (2008). Optimised State Assignment for FSMs Using Quantum Inspired Evolutionary Algorithm. In: Hornby, G.S., Sekanina, L., Haddow, P.C. (eds) Evolvable Systems: From Biology to Hardware. ICES 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5216. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-85857-7_29
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