With the important development of computer architectures, bus emulatio
n becomes a very important tool. In this paper, methods for bus emulat
ion are generally studied. We present several actual systems using thi
s approach and introduce a new practical application. This application
permits a PC-compatible system with an ISA BUS to control an embedded
system originally based on a MC68000 microprocessor. This paper demon
strates the easy use of bus emulation techniques to modernize obsolete
industrial controllers. (C) 1998 Published by Elsevier Science B.V.