Synchronous (or registered) Mealy machine

• Best of both worlds (and common in real world)

  • Fewer states than Moore machine
  • No race conditions between machines (unlike true Mealy)
  • No glitches on outputs (unlike Moore)
    • Output logic appears before output flip-flop

inputs

outputs

state feedback

reg

combinational logic for outputs and next state

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