The inputs that drive hardware state machines are bits or groups of bits. In software, groups of bits that can change are called variables. Therefore, the software state machines that most closely ...

A nice aspect of the state machine concept is its compelling graphical representation in the form of state diagrams. In the modern Unified Modeling Language (UML 2.5) notation [3], states are ...

With Visual State’s graphical interface, state-machine models can be created using a familiar drag-and-drop approach (see figure). These models can be turned into C, C++, C#, or Java source code.