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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 28, 2004
Filed:
Oct. 01, 2002
Gregory F. Hammitt, Eagan, MN (US);
John M. Nystuen, Burnsville, MN (US);
LSI Logic Corporation, Milpitas, CA (US);
Abstract
A circuit generally comprising an interface circuit and an arbitration circuit is disclosed. The interface circuit may be couplable between a peripheral device and a plurality of ports. The arbitration circuit may be coupled to the interface circuit. The arbitration circuit may be configured to (i) store a plurality of associations between a plurality of time slots and the ports, (ii) check the associations in a subset comprising at least two of the time slots in response to receiving an arbitration request from a first requesting port of the ports, and (iii) generate a grant for the first requesting port to communicate with the peripheral device in response to the first requesting port matching at least one of the associations in the subset.