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Table of Contents:

Definition and Overview

1. 'Safe' and 'Unsafe' State Machines

2. Hard-encoded 'Safe' State Machines

3. Creating 'Hard' Encoded 'Safe' State Machines Using the State Diagram Editor

Self-Test

Glossary

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HDL
Hardware Description Language

NRZ
Non–Return-to-Zero

VHDL
VHSIC (Very-High-Speed Integrated Circuit) Hardware Description Language

Definitions

NRZ–to-Manchester Conversion
As in the example shown, this is a Moore sequential network converting an NRZ–coded bit stream to a Manchester-coded bit stream