| 摘要 |
One aspect of the invention relates to a method for arbitrating simultaneous bus requests in a multiprocessor system having a plurality of devices which are coupled to a shared bus. In one version of the invention, the method includes the steps of receiving a plurality of bus requests from the devices; determining a device having the highest priority; determining whether the device having the highest priority is requesting the bus; granting bus access to the device having the highest priority if the device having the highest priority is requesting the bus; sequentially searching, beginning from the device logically adjacent to the device having the highest priority, for a next requesting device, and granting bus access to the next requesting device if the device having the highest priority is not requesting the bus; and assigning the highest priority to the device logically adjacent to the next requesting device.
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