METHOD OF PERFORMING ACCESS TO A SINGLE-PORT MEMORY DEVICE, MEMORY ACCESS DEVICE, INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DEVICE AND METHOD OF USE OF AN INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DEVICE

摘要

An arbiter (15) for accessing a single-port RAM (13) without the need to use a hand-shaking protocol is proposed. This allows simultaneous read and write accesses to a single-port RAM (13). All write accesses are delayed so that the arbiter (15) can detect if there is a simultaneous read access. If there is a read access, the read access is delayed until the write access is completed.