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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 14, 2000
Filed:
Feb. 02, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
David W LaFollette, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Jerrold V Hauck, Fremont, CA (US);
Assignee:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B / ; H04L / ; H04J / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
370443 ; 370449 ; 370462 ; 3408255 ;
Abstract
A method and apparatus for early arbitration in a full duplex bus system. Early arbitration in a distributed arbitration serial bus system permits the resolution of requests for a next fairness interval during a current fairness interval such that the grant of the highest priority request in the next fairness interval may immediately follow a last packet of a last subaction in a current fairness interval. In this way, the bandwidth previously wasted propagating an arbitration reset token and waiting for arbitration requests can be substantially eliminated.