Pipelined arbitration system and method

Electrical computers and digital data processing systems: input/ – Access arbitrating

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710111, 710244, G06F 1200

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061674788

ABSTRACT:
An access control system (10) for controlling access to a shared resource among a plurality of service requestors is described. When a service requestor seeks access to the shared resource, it generates a service request signal which includes its assigned unique service request priority number. The outputs of all the service requesters are applied to pipelined first and second OR-trees (75, 78) which produce an OR-ed output signal. The OR-ed output signal is then applied to an access control unit (38) which performs an arbitration protocol to determine the highest priority number. Each service requester includes a state machine which selectively applies the bits of its priority number to the OR-trees (75, 78). The use of pipelined protocol with two OR-trees (75, 78) reduces cycle consumption and permits arbitration within a single clock cycle.

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