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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 18, 1994
Filed:
Jul. 22, 1991
Armando Garcia, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Curtis S McDowell, Thornwood, NY (US);
Wielming Sieh, Newton, MA (US);
International Business Machines, Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
An Arbiter (36) is coupled to a multiprocessor system (10) Global Bus (24) having two separate main buses: an address bus (ABUS) and a data bus (DBUS). Bus agents coupled to the Global Bus request access to use the buses by asserting bus request lines to the Arbiter. The Arbiter is a dual level, round robin Arbiter that employs a fast, single-cycle arbitration technique. During each system clock cycle, the Arbiter considers the signals on the request input lines and generates corresponding grant output lines which dictate, for the next cycle, which bus agent is to receive access to the address bus and which bus agent is to receive access to the data bus.
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