Patent ID: 7076586
Filing Date: 2006-07-11
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A system comprising: a bus; and a plurality of agents coupled to said bus, in which each of said plurality of agents is configured to arbitrate for said bus using an arbitration priority scheme, but wherein only one of said plurality of agents is selected as a predetermined default agent to be alone given default grant of said bus independent of the arbitration priority scheme, if no other of said plurality of agents arbitrates for said bus, said default agent to also be an arbitration participant with other ones of said plurality of agents when arbitrating using the arbitration priority scheme, and in which said default agent is changed to a lower priority in the arbitration priority scheme in response to using said bus by default grant, but said default agent to always maintain its status to be given default grant of said bus, even after other agents win arbitration of said bus.