Is anyone aware of any published detailed designs of Multibus arbitration circuitry, NOT using the Intel bus arbiter chips (e.g., 8218, 8219, 8289, 82289)? I know various vendors making Multibus CPU cards for non-Intel CPUs (e.g., 68K or NS 32K) sometimes designed their own arbiters out of TTL and/or PALs, but I haven't found any schematics. The only thing I've found so far is an application note "A Multibus Arbiter Design for 10 MHz Processors" in the 1988 AMD PAL Device Handbook, but I'd like to see other examples.
I'm considering designing a Multibus I/O card that needs to be a bus master, and while an 8289 or 82C89 would do what I want, they're relatively hard to find and expensive, so I'd rather just do it in my FPGA, with suitable buffering to meet the Multibus electrical specs. It appears that the inner workings of the Intel 8289 arbiter are documented in US patent 4,257,095. The Intel MDS-800 circa 1975 used a bunch of TTL, but it was pretty tightly intertwined with 8080-specific logic, and since the MDS-800 predated the Multibus spec and has a few obvious differences from it, I don't think it serves as a particularly good bus arbiter design example.
