Augmented Parity Check Codes for Encoding of Asynchronous Sequential Machines

Abstract
Critical races can be avoided in the binary encoding of asynchronous sequential machines by making use of general codes employing-multistep changes in secondary variables to accomplish transitions between states. The shortest length code of this type presently available is Huffman's internmeshed row set code, which encodes race-free any 2SO-row flow table with 2So-1 bits. In this paper, a new class of codes called augmented parity check codes (APC codes) is introduced and proposed for race-free encoding. Some of the properties of these codes suggest that minimum codes may require only on the order of So+ log2SObits.

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