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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 27, 2010
Filed:
Sep. 07, 2006
Bijo Thomas, Kottayam, IN;
Milind Manohar Kulkarni, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Bijo Thomas, Kottayam, IN;
Milind Manohar Kulkarni, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Abstract
A method and system for bus arbitration to be used in a system having a plurality of data handling units () and a shared bus () with a plurality of data-lines. The invention provides a method and an system to carry out the method, having steps of; receiving data transfer requests from the data handling units; selecting a set of data transfer requests the allowance of which serves a maximum number of data handling units and utilizes a maximum number of data-lines, and; allowing the data handling units that issued said selected set of data transfer requests to access said bus in a single bus cycle.