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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 24, 2017
Filed:
Mar. 17, 2014
Bitmicro Networks, Inc., Fremont, CA (US);
Ricardo H. Bruce, Fremont, CA (US);
Cyrill Coronel Ponce, Malabon, PH;
Jarmie Dela Cruz Espuerta, Bacolod, PH;
BiTMICRO Networks, Inc., Fremont, CA (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment of the invention, a system architecture for bus masters and bus arbiters are provided to support routing and failover. The system comprises large pools of bus masters, a plurality of sets can be configured to control a plurality of slave devices wherein each set contains a collection of bus masters attached to central arbiter driving one of the system buses. Each set controls a group(s) of slave device that are primarily controlled by the bus master(s) within the set. Hence, a system can therefore include of a plurality of sets and can control a group of slave devices.