Resource arbiter

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2007-04-16

2010-10-12

Stiglic, Ryan M (Department: 2111)

Electrical computers and digital data processing systems: input/

Access arbitrating

Access prioritizing

C710S241000, C710S116000

Reexamination Certificate

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07814253

ABSTRACT:
An aspect of the present invention provides an arbiter which grants a request (to access a resource) in the same clock cycle as in which the requests from requesters is received. In one embodiment, such a feature may be provided in case of arbitration policies requiring state information from previous grants. In another embodiment, such a feature may be provided when the arbitration policy is programmable such that the same arbiter can be used for different arbitration policies.

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