VLSI Design
Volume 2010 (2010), Article ID 639747, 7 pages
doi:10.1155/2010/639747
Research Article

An Approach for Implementing State Machines with Online Testability

P. K. Lala,1 A. Mathews,2 and J. P. Parkerson2

1Department of Electrical Engineering, Texas A&M University, Texarkana, TX 75505, USA
2Department of Computer Science and Computer Engineering, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR 72701, USA

Received 3 June 2009; Revised 24 December 2009; Accepted 9 February 2010

Academic Editor: Rubin Parekhji

Copyright © 2010 P. K. Lala et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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