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

TITLE:   The Implementor Subsystem in DAME: Using OASIS to
         Complete the Design Automation of Microprocessor-
         based Systems

IN:      Proceedings of the Canadian Conference on
         Very Large Scale Integration, Halifax, Nova Scotia,
         Canada, pp. 139 - 146, October 18-20, 1992

ABSTRACT

This paper discusses the implementor subsystem in DAME, a
microprocessor-based-systems designer. DAME produces designs
from system specifications such as type of application,
performance, processing requirements, etc. The main
responsability of the implementor subsystem is to translate
DAME's functional design specification of the necessary
interface logic into a VLSI implementation. The basic
design steps followed by DAME as well as the implementor
methodology are presented, and a protocol-conversion interface
is used to illustrate the procedure. The implementor 
automatically converts the design specification to LogicIII 
and the OASIS environment then carries out the VLSI design.