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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 07, 2000
Filed:
Jul. 23, 1998
Do Young Kim, Daejeon, KR;
Sang Joong Kim, Daejeon, KR;
Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Daejeon, KR;
Korea & Telecom, Seoul, KR;
Abstract
A cell bus arbitration device and method arbitrating a cell bus transmitting data in a certain size of packet unit is disclosed. The cell bus arbitration device comprises a filter for outputting request signals not to be masked by using service mask data, a decoder for outputting only the highest priority request signal, a latching and counting unit latching and counting the priority signal, a service flag for outputting service mask data according to the bus grant signals, and a detector for detecting the state of the bus request signals and controlling the service flag unit. The device is used for arbitrating a cell bus for transmitting data in packet unit.