Patent ID: 6636913
Filing Date: 2003-10-21
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
In a bus system for transferring data in the form of multibyte data streams, said bus system having at least one bus, said at least one bus coupled to a plurality of data transfer agents, said data transfer agents requesting access to said bus to transfer data thereon, a method for controlling access to said at least one bus, comprising the steps of:initializing a data length count for a bus arbiter, with a length of data to be transferred; granting access to said bus to one of said plurality of data transfer agents for transferring data thereon; changing control of deassertion of grant of access based on a frame signal, to said initialized length of data and a frame signal; accumulating, during said grant of access to said data transfer agent, signals indicating the length of said data transferred between said bus and said data transfer agent, and indicating transfer completion of said initialized length of data; and upon said accumulating step indicating said transfer completion of said initialized length of data, said bus arbiter terminating said grant of access to said data transfer agent.