Expandable arbitration architecture for sharing system memory in

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1995-12-22

1998-04-14

Asta, Frank J.

Boots, shoes, and leggings

395296, 395474, 395728, 395729, 364DIG1, G06F 1300, G06F 1336

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057403813

ABSTRACT:
An arbitration bus is arranged between a core logic chip set and a plurality of peripheral devices in order to arbitrate requests by the peripheral devices to use system memory of a computer system. Three or two arbitration signals carried on the arbitration bus. Means are provided to differentiate two levels of priority in each peripheral device. The core logic chip set can make a response pressing or otherwise so as to promote the overall performance. Preemption is provided so that peripheral devices can be overridden without wasting time when it is necessary to do so. Each peripheral device outputs a row address strobe (RAS) signal, all of which are connected together to form a open-collector signal to the core logic chip set for automatically accessing corresponding memory banks of system memory.

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