AUTHORS: M.A. Escalante, B. Huber, N.J. Dimopoulos, K.F. Li,
         D. Li, and E.G. Manning

TITLE:   Bus Arbitration Modelling and Design in Dame: an 
         Expert Microprocessor-Based-Systems-Designer

IN:      Proceedings of the International Symposium on 
	 Artificial Intelligence, Cancun, Mexico, pp. 238 - 244,
         November 11-14, 1991

ABSTRACT

DAME (Design Automation of Microprocessor-based systems using
an Expert system approach) is an expert system capable of
configuring and designing a customized microprocessor system
from original specifications. We have postulated that such an
expert system can be easily constructed since most of the
interfaces used by the various microprocessors and related
peripherals are standardized. Thus once the gross structure
of the design and the modules comprising it have been chosen,
their interconnection is fairly straightforward. In this work
we present as a design example the bus arbitration interface
to illustrate the design process in DAME. Knowledge and data
representations are shown, together with a sample design for
the VMEbus.