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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:
Jul. 11, 2000
Filed:
Feb. 12, 1998
Applicant:
Inventor:
Kenneth Jaramillo, Phoenix, AZ (US);
Assignee:
VLSI Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
710116 ;
Abstract
The present invention comprises a computer system with a reconfigurable bus priority arbitration system. The computer system of the present invention includes a master device, a slave device, an arbiter and a reconfigurable bus priority arbitration system, all coupled to a bus. The reconfigurable arbitration system determines said master device's relative priority for bus accesses and is capable of implementing a plurality of linked arbitration priority schemes.