Arbitration in crossbar interconnect for low latency
A system and method and computer program product for reducing the latency of signals communicated through a crossbar switch, the method including using at slave arbitration logic devices associated with Slave devices for which access is requested from one or more Master devices, two or more priority vector signals cycled among their use every clock cycle for selecting one of the requesting Master devices and updates the respective priority vector signal used every clock cycle. Similarly, each Master for which access is requested from one or more Slave devices, can have two or more priority vectors and can cycle among their use every clock cycle to further reduce latency and increase throughput performance via the crossbar.
- Research Organization:
- International Business Machines Corp., Armonk, NY (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE
- DOE Contract Number:
- B554331
- Assignee:
- International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, NY)
- Patent Number(s):
- 8,370,551
- Application Number:
- 12/684,287
- OSTI ID:
- 1083210
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
Arbitration in crossbar interconnect for low latency
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patent | February 2013 |
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