Menu
Home
People
Places
Arts
History
Plants & Animals
Science
Life & Culture
Technology
Reference.org
Event-driven finite-state machine
open-in-new
<p>In <a href="/facts/Computation/qLsELosq">computation</a>, a <a href="/facts/Finite-state_machine/GMusWd0a">finite-state machine</a> (FSM) is event driven if the transition from one state to another is triggered by an event or a message. This is in contrast to the parsing-theory origins of the term finite-state machine where the machine is described as consuming characters or tokens. </p><p>Often these machines are implemented as threads or processes communicating with one another as part of a larger application. For example, a telecommunication protocol is most of the time implemented as an event-driven finite-state machine. </p>