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Re: Binary counter - please check my work

From rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com>
Newsgroups sci.electronics.design
Subject Re: Binary counter - please check my work
Date 2017-04-30 21:20 -0400
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On 4/30/2017 9:07 PM, rickman wrote:
> On 4/30/2017 8:26 PM, bitrex wrote:
>> On 04/30/2017 08:10 PM, rickman wrote:
>>
>>>> The decoded output is going to be wrong while the change is
>>>> propagating through the decoder (which may not be a single stage
>>>> device, which can be another source of glitches).
>>>
>>> What decoder?  Again you are making assumptions about some design which
>>> may or may not be relevant and so is not a general rule.
>>
>> That's true...it's nice to have discussions about things but I just
>> thought I'd drop in to say I've been rethinking the design to avoid
>> having to decode anything. ;-)
>
> Are you looking for a circuit that will provide N outputs for N states?
> That is very easy to do either with a one-hot FSM or a Johnson ring
> counter.  If you don't know what FSM means, it is Finite State Machine,
> a general form of a counter type circuit.  A counter typically moves
> between states in sequence, up or down or both, sometimes with a reset
> or load.  A FSM can change between states arbitrarily.
>
> A Johnson ring counter is very simple with N flip flops encoding 2N
> states with very simple decode done by AND gates and inverters.

I forgot to explain "one-hot".  That means each state has only one bit 
set.  For a 1 of N output this means the counter directly provides the 
outputs.  Very simple and often a very fast state machine.

-- 

Rick C

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Binary counter - please check my work bitrex <bitrex@de.lete.earthlink.net> - 2017-04-28 19:14 -0400
  Re: Binary counter - please check my work Don Y <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> - 2017-04-28 16:20 -0700
    Re: Binary counter - please check my work rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-04-28 19:31 -0400
    Re: Binary counter - please check my work bitrex <bitrex@de.lete.earthlink.net> - 2017-04-28 22:39 -0400
      Re: Binary counter - please check my work Don Y <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> - 2017-04-28 20:07 -0700
        Re: Binary counter - please check my work bitrex <bitrex@de.lete.earthlink.net> - 2017-04-29 00:27 -0400
          Re: Binary counter - please check my work Don Y <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> - 2017-04-28 22:44 -0700
            Re: Binary counter - please check my work Don Y <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> - 2017-04-28 22:46 -0700
            Re: Binary counter - please check my work rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-04-29 10:29 -0400
              Re: Binary counter - please check my work bitrex <bitrex@de.lete.earthlink.net> - 2017-04-29 11:07 -0400
              Re: Binary counter - please check my work bill.sloman@ieee.org - 2017-04-29 20:34 -0700
                Re: Binary counter - please check my work rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-04-29 23:43 -0400
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                Re: Binary counter - please check my work rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-04-30 01:42 -0400
                Re: Binary counter - please check my work bill.sloman@ieee.org - 2017-04-29 23:28 -0700
                Re: Binary counter - please check my work rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-04-30 20:10 -0400
                Re: Binary counter - please check my work bitrex <bitrex@de.lete.earthlink.net> - 2017-04-30 20:26 -0400
                Re: Binary counter - please check my work rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-04-30 21:07 -0400
                Re: Binary counter - please check my work rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-04-30 21:20 -0400
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                Re: Binary counter - please check my work rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-05-01 08:43 -0400
                Re: Binary counter - please check my work krw@notreal.com - 2017-05-01 13:33 -0400
                Re: Binary counter - please check my work bill.sloman@ieee.org - 2017-05-01 23:02 -0700
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                Re: Binary counter - please check my work bill.sloman@ieee.org - 2017-05-02 19:39 -0700
                Re: Binary counter - please check my work rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-05-02 11:30 -0400
          Re: Binary counter - please check my work Jasen Betts <jasen@xnet.co.nz> - 2017-04-29 20:25 +0000
            Re: Binary counter - please check my work rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-04-29 23:15 -0400
              Re: Binary counter - please check my work upsidedown@downunder.com - 2017-05-01 11:12 +0300
        Re: Binary counter - please check my work bitrex <bitrex@de.lete.earthlink.net> - 2017-04-29 00:43 -0400
          Re: Binary counter - please check my work Winfield Hill <hill@rowland.harvard.edu> - 2017-04-29 05:31 -0700
            Re: Binary counter - please check my work bitrex <bitrex@de.lete.earthlink.net> - 2017-04-29 09:48 -0400
          Re: Binary counter - please check my work Don Y <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> - 2017-04-29 08:45 -0700
            Re: Binary counter - please check my work bitrex <bitrex@de.lete.earthlink.net> - 2017-04-29 12:51 -0400
              Re: Binary counter - please check my work rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-04-29 14:54 -0400
              Re: Binary counter - please check my work Don Y <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> - 2017-04-29 12:34 -0700
                Re: Binary counter - please check my work bitrex <bitrex@de.lete.earthlink.net> - 2017-04-29 15:51 -0400
                Re: Binary counter - please check my work Don Y <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> - 2017-04-29 21:37 -0700
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              Re: Binary counter - please check my work Don Y <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> - 2017-04-29 14:08 -0700
              Re: Binary counter - please check my work bitrex <bitrex@de.lete.earthlink.net> - 2017-04-29 17:31 -0400
                Re: Binary counter - please check my work Jasen Betts <jasen@xnet.co.nz> - 2017-04-30 00:51 +0000
                Re: Binary counter - please check my work bitrex <bitrex@de.lete.earthlink.net> - 2017-04-29 21:42 -0400
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                Re: Binary counter - please check my work bitrex <bitrex@de.lete.earthlink.net> - 2017-04-30 16:06 -0400
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