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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 09, 2014
Filed:
Sep. 21, 2011
Abhijit Kumar Deb, Eindhoven, NL;
Hubertus Gerardus Hendrikus Vermeulen, Eindhoven, NL;
Sujan Pandey, Eindhoven, NL;
Abhijit Kumar Deb, Eindhoven, NL;
Hubertus Gerardus Hendrikus Vermeulen, Eindhoven, NL;
Sujan Pandey, Eindhoven, NL;
NXP B.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Abstract
Central bus guardians (CBGs) and methods for operating a CBG are described. In one embodiment, a method for operating a CBG includes performing race arbitration among the buses connected to the CBG to select a winner bus for a time slot, and selectively forwarding data received at the CBG from the winner bus to a destination bus in the time slot based on whether the winner bus or the destination bus has a connection to an external network with respect to the application network and whether a communications device connected to the winner bus or the destination bus performs a critical function. Other embodiments are also described.