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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 12, 2010
Filed:
Apr. 16, 2007
Applicants:
Harendran Kethareswaran, Trichy, IN;
Amit Rao, Bangalore, IN;
Inventors:
Harendran Kethareswaran, Trichy, IN;
Amit Rao, Bangalore, IN;
Assignee:
NVIDIA Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 13/14 (2006.01); G06F 13/38 (2006.01); G06F 13/36 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An aspect of the present invention provides an arbiter which grants a request (to access a resource) in the same clock cycle as in which the requests from requesters is received. In one embodiment, such a feature may be provided in case of arbitration policies requiring state information from previous grants. In another embodiment, such a feature may be provided when the arbitration policy is programmable such that the same arbiter can be used for different arbitration policies.