Moore machine
Máquina de Moore
- Date
- 1956 · confidence high
- Place
- Murray Hill, New Jersey, United States
- Credited to
- Edward F. Moore
- Field
- Knowledge & symbols
What it is
Mathematician Edward F. Moore, at Bell Labs in Murray Hill, introduced in 1956 the concept of a finite-state machine whose output depends only on the current state, an alternative to the Mealy machine that simplifies the design of sequential circuits.
What it led to
- Digital sequential circuit design
- Formal modeling of protocols and automata
- Hybrid Mealy-Moore machines in digital electronics