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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.

Date of Patent:
Mar. 04, 2014

Filed:

Feb. 24, 2010
Applicants:

Lukito Muliadi, San Jose, CA (US);

Raymond Hoi Man Wong, Richmond Hill, CA;

Madhukiran V. Swarna, Portland, OR (US);

Samuel H. Duncan, Arlington, MA (US);

Inventors:

Lukito Muliadi, San Jose, CA (US);

Raymond Hoi Man Wong, Richmond Hill, CA;

Madhukiran V. Swarna, Portland, OR (US);

Samuel H. Duncan, Arlington, MA (US);

Assignee:

NVIDIA Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/00 (2006.01); H04L 12/28 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for arbitrating between a set of requesters that transmit data transmission requests to the weighted LRU arbiter. Each data transmission request is associated with a specific amount of data to be transmitted over the crossbar unit. Based on the priority state associated with each requester, the weighted LRU arbiter then selects the requester in the set of requesters with the highest priority. The weighted LRU arbiter then decrements the weight associated with the selected requester stored in a corresponding weight store based on the size of the data to be transmitted. If the decremented weight is equal to or less than zero, then the priority associated with the selected requester is set to a lowest priority. If, however, the decremented weight is greater than zero, then the priority associated with the selected requester is not changed.


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