Does anyone have a good tool they recommend for documenting/prototyping state diagrams or state machines before beginning a firmware project?
I’ve always just used a pen and paper and drawn all the bubbles and arrows, etc, but larger ones are now a pain to edit. I’ve tried powerpoint but then the slide size is not scalable and shrinking all the content down as the project gets bigger isn’t always the cleanest. Microsoft Visio doesn’t seem that great either.
Any help is appreciated. Thanks.
A long time ago (1980’s) there was a tool called BetterState that I used. It not only documented the FSM, but also autogenerated the code. The code was table based. I also think that it generated VHDL but I could be wrong. Now a few years ago, I went looking for the tool and was not able to find it. But I think it was purchased by IAR and sold as an add on to their IDE. I have no experience with the new tool, but BetterState was pretty good.
appreciate the feedback. lucidchart looks like visio. i’m not interested in code generation, only sketching. might just stick with ppt for now