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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 12, 2006
Filed:
May. 13, 2003
Robert E. Ward, Colorado Springs, CO (US);
Travis Alister Bradfield, Colorado Springs, CO (US);
Gregory A. Johnson, Colorado Springs, CO (US);
Robert E. Ward, Colorado Springs, CO (US);
Travis Alister Bradfield, Colorado Springs, CO (US);
Gregory A. Johnson, Colorado Springs, CO (US);
LSI Logic Corporation, Milpitas, CA (US);
Abstract
An arbitration elimination scheme for a bus. In a preferred embodiment, a programmable counter determines when a SCSI bus idle condition is reached and when a portion of an arbitration window for the bus has passed without participants. If there are no participants for arbitration, the SCSI initiator eliminates arbitration by asserting SEL and issuing initiator/target IDS. If any other device attempts to arbitrate at this time, the device sees SEL asserted and does not attempt to participate in arbitration.