GENERATION OF AN OUTPUT REGULAR EXPRESSION OF A SEQUENTIAL MACHINE WITH A SPECIFIED INPUT REGULAR EXPRESSION.

Abstract

It has been shown that the set of output sequences of a sequential machine due to a regular set of input sequences is regular. However, there is no method of generating the regular expression for the output regular set. The purpose of this paper is to present such a technique which is based on constructing the output graph from the state graph of the sequential machine and the input regular expression. Once the output graph is obtained, the regular expression can readily be obtained by using the signal flow graph techniques proposed by Brzozowski and McCluskey. The technique presented in this paper can be applied to both Moore and Mealy machines. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 1966
Accession Number
AD0641745

Entities

People

  • S. S. Yau

Organizations

  • Northwestern University

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Demographic Cohorts
  • Demography
  • Mathematics
  • Sequences

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Applied Combinatorial Optimization and Logic Circuit Design.