Patent ID: 7007138
Filing Date: 2006-02-28
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for resource request arbitration that arbitrates a plurality of resource requests issued by a plurality of resource requesting devices by acknowledging one of the plurality of resource requests in every time-slot, the plurality of resource requesting devices being in a predetermined priority order, the apparatus for resource request arbitration comprising: a judging unit operable to judge whether R resource requests issued by a resource requesting device have been acknowledged during preceding S time slots, R and S being numbers set to each of the plurality of resource requesting devices in advance; a suspending unit operable to suspend a resource request issued by the resource requesting device when the judging unit judges positively; and an acknowledging unit operable to acknowledge a resource request selected from the resource requests that are not suspended by the suspending unit, the selected resource request being issued by a resource requesting device having a highest priority among the plurality of resource requesting devices which have issued the resource requests that are not suspended.