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Week 5

• Synchrony
• Side-by-side
• Cascade
• Example
• Product-form
• Answering machine
• Series-Parallel
• Playback
• Composition
• Steps
• Feedback
• Example 1
• Example 2
• Example 3
• Example 4
• Delay

Instructor Guide for Week 5

This week is devoted to composition of state machines. The deep concepts are synchrony, which gives a rigorous semantics to block diagrams, and feedback. The most useful concept to help subsequent material is that feedback loops with delays are always well formed.

Problem session

• Chapter 2, exercises 10 and 11 (assigned last week).
• Chapter 3, exercises 10 and 11 (not in the reader).
• Chapter 4, exercises 2 and 5.

To student pages.