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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 30, 1989
Filed:
Mar. 14, 1988
Charles E Dike, Pleasant Grove, UT (US);
Edward A Burton, Provo, UT (US);
North American Philips Corporation, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A high-speed low-power-consumption two-input arbiter circuit comprises two input inverters, two inverters cross-coupled to form a latch and two additional inverters that drive a difference detector. The detector responds only to a voltage difference on its inputs that exceeds a specified value. In this way, signals are blocked from appearing at the outputs of the detector while the latch is in a metastable state. Additionally, an n-input arbiter circuit comprises (n-1)+(n-2)+ . . . +[n-(n-1)] two-input arbiter circuits and logic circuitry connected to the outputs of the two-input circuits for supplying a priority signal to one and only one at a time of n output terminals of the n-input circuit.