Bus arbiter and bus arbitrating method

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1994-12-08

1996-12-10

Harvey, Jack B.

395291, 395293, 395294, 395296, G06F 1300

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055839991

ABSTRACT:
A plurality of priority determining units determine a bus use among a plurality of bus masters on the basis of bus request signals respectively from the bus masters and thereby generate bus grant signal. A bus request allocation unit allocates each bus request signals to one or more priority determining units on the basis of an allocation signal indicating which one or more priority determining units, among the plurality of priority determining units, to receive an allocation of the bus request signals from the plurality of bus masters. A control unit supplies the allocation signal to the bus request allocation unit and operates one or more priority determining units based on the allocation signal.

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patent: 4663756 (1987-05-01), Retterath
patent: 4947368 (1990-08-01), Donaldson et al.
patent: 5388228 (1995-02-01), Heath et al.

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