Patent ID: 11874781
Assignee: MARVELL ASIA PTE LTD
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 13:
14. A method of utilizing a packet processing system, the method comprising:
transmitting a plurality of requests for access of one or more memory banks of a packet memory to a packet memory arbiter, wherein each of a plurality of hierarchical clients and the packet memory arbiter are serially communicatively coupled together thereby forming a client chain, and further wherein one or more of the hierarchical clients are coupled with the packet memory arbiter separate from the client chain via one or more interfaces;
arbitrating between the plurality of requests with the packet memory arbiter by granting one of the requests; and
transmitting packet data associated with the granted request from the one or more memory banks of the packet memory to the hierarchical client that sent the granted request.