MICON: A Knowledge Based Single Board Computer Designer

Abstract

For some time there has been interest in automatically implementing designs described in a high level representation. This paper presents a workbench that allows a designer to describe a single board computer at the hardware requirements level and have a design produced automatically. The designs produced by the system, MICON, compare favorably to commercial designs. In comparison to manual techniques, the design time has been drastically reduced; a series of three commercial designs was reproduced in a few hours. MICON uses knowledge based engineering approaches in its implementation and is written in the OPS-5 production system language.