Hello Everyone,

I have spent hours on this assignment only to come up short on a good result. Essentially we must design a machine that takes .50 cents or one dollar and upon receiving two dollars in total vends a stamp.

Here are the truth tables as well as simplified formulas that I have made:

A1 = A'C + AC'D' + AB'D + A'BD
B1 = BC'D' + B'D + A'BC
X = ABD + AC
Y = ABC

What happens is when I start inputing either C or D it ends up skipping an input, then it works fine afterwords. I tried without do not care terms and it wouldn't function at all. If you need to see my K-Maps or other information I can provide that as well.

 

How can we possibly evaluate your table when you give no indication what your inputs and outputs are. C and D are not very meaningful input names -- I'm guessing one of them is for 50 cents and the other is for a dollar. Similarly, x and y are not very meaningful output names. I'm guessing one of them is to vent a stamp, but you give no hint what the other one might be, let along which is which.

 

My apologies. C is a dollar, and D is 50 cents. X is a stamp is vended and Y is 50 cents in change is returned.

 

Is this a Mealy or a Moore machine?

 

What information is represented by each state?

 

Mealy Machine. The states are as follows: S0=00, S1=01, S2=10, S3=11. They are D-flip-flop storage units. In the state diagram it is CD/xy for inputs CD and outputs xy

 

What does each state MEAN?

If the machine is in state S2, what information do you know about the system. Remember, in a state machine, the state captures all of the relevant history about the entire history of the machine, so you need to be able to articulate what that relevant history is?

 

S0 is when no form of money has been entered. S1 is when .50 cents is registered with the machine. S2 is when 1.00 is registered with the machine. S3 is when 1.50 is registered with the machine.

 

I think your equations are correct.

What do you mean by "it skips an input"?

 

I found out when I run the clock cycle on the chip and leave an input on it immediately registers the value and outputs it as though a previous input had occurred (such as when D is activated, it sends two 1s through the circuit).

 

Immediately registers what value where? Sends two 1s through the circuit how?

A schematic would certainly be nice.