TITLE: Data Transfer Interface Design in DAME
  

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


     IN: IEEE Pacific Rim Conference on Communications, 
     	 Computers and Signal Processing, May, 1993, 
     	 pp. 510-513 
     	 
     	 

ABSTRACT

    This paper discusses the component model and interface
design procedure for data transfer in DAME (Design
Automation of Microprocessor based systems, using an
Expert system approach), a system in development that will
be capable of producing the complete design from original
system specification, such as the type of application, cost,
processing requirements, power consumption, etc.
     Signals connecting microprocessor components are used
to transfer information between the components. Several
different types of information were found to be involved in
data transfer. The model developed for data transfer treats each
of the information exchange as a primitive. Each information
primitive consists of the timing information of signals
involved and the state information about the exact state of
these signals during the information exchange. In DAME,
design decisions are made by a set of rules that manipulates
the information exchange primitives to obtain the final
interface design.