المجلة الدولية للعلوم والتقنية

The binary information in digital systems can be divided into two parts. The first part is the digital circuits that perform the data processing operations. The other part is the control circuit that supervises the operations in the digital circuits and their sequence. Control and data-processing tasks of a digital system are specified by means of a hardware algorithm. An algorithm consists of a finite number of procedural steps that specify how to obtain a solution to a problem. A hardware algorithm is a procedure for implementing the problem with a given piece of equipment. A flowchart is a way to specify the sequence of procedural steps. A special flowchart that has been developed specifically to define digital hardware algorithms is called an Algorithmic State Machine (ASM) chart. In this paper we propose to design a sorter circuit using selection sorting algorithm. The circuit will be designed using Algorithmic State Machines (ASM) method. That means converting the insertion sorting flowchart into an ASM chart. Then the ASM chart will be used to design the sorter circuit and the control unit.