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4.5.4. Protecting State Machine Logic
The following example shows how an inadequate reset strategy might result in an illegal state in a one-hot state machine. In this example, the design does not reset any of the state machine registers. The state machine design depends on registers entering an initial state. Without an adequate reset, this state machine begins operating when part of the device is active. Nearby logic included in the state machine remains frozen, before INIT_DONE asserts.
Register B in the active section is operational and takes on the value of Register A in the next clock cycle. Register A is still in the freeze register state and does not respond to the clock edge. Register A remains in the current state.
The entire fabric is now in user mode. The state machine enters an illegal or unknown state with two ones in a one-hot state machine. To prevent this illegal state, use the Reset Release IP to hold the circuit in reset until INIT_DONE asserts indicating that the entire fabric has entered user mode.