Motorola Corporation

Noam Halevi

Moti Kurnick

Vladislav Kopzon

Itai Katz

A multi-master bus system (,) comprises bus (,), a plurality of bus devices (,), coupled to the bus, including masters (,), and slaves (,), a memory controller (,) for controlling the data exchange on bus (,), having a memory (,) for storing a transaction type value with respect to each slave (,). The multi-master bus system (,) comprises further an arbiter (,) for performing bus arbitration, arbiter (,) having logic for conditionally subsequently granting the bus (,) to a master of an initiating transaction for a closing transaction depending on the transaction type value of the slave of the initiating transaction. The multi-master bus system makes atomic or indivisible transactions possible on a bus without changing the bus width or the bus protocol.

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Beer Sheva, Israel

Noam Halevi