Yeah, from that angle, yes, you'd do that. But within any one of those devices, would you carve the insides into independent FSMs? Probably a 'yes' qualifed wit

Yeah, from that angle, yes, you'd do that. But within any one of those devices, would you carve the insides into independent FSMs? Probably a 'yes' qualifed with 'if they were very independent problems anyway'. I did say I needed to think about it more. Guess if there were to eventually be a point I'd try to make, it would be that s/w seems to have a tendency to be structured more like an entire complex system, than like nice tight clean self contained state machines. Idk if this has to be so or not, but in recent years with the rise of multicore processing, I've seen a huge gravitation toward splintering s/w into threads, without, seemingly, well planned combination of those threads. It's sort of like if, as an EE you were going to build a whole computer, declared "I'm going to need counters and adders and registers (etc)", and then set about designing great counters and adders etc, but then just lashed them together somewhat haphazardly and kind of just hoped to get the system you wanted.