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Hierarchical round robin arbiter

US7720092B1 · kind B1 · utility

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Assignee

Juniper Networks, Inc. · US

Inventors

Pradeep Sindhu · Los Altos Hills, US
Debashis Basu · San Jose, US
Edwin Su · San Jose, US

Key dates

Filing date	May 31, 2007
Grant date	May 18, 2010
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Apr 24, 2028

Classification

Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
CPC primaryH04L47/50
WIPO fieldDigital communication
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A hierarchical round robin arbiter includes a first set of arbitration vectors, each associated with a plurality of requesters. A second arbitration vector includes one bit for each arbitration vector in the first set. The single bit informs the round robin arbiter if any of the requesters associated with the corresponding arbitration vector in the first set are requesting service. The round robin arbiter can determine whether one of a number of requesters is requesting service by examining the single bit in the arbitration vector.

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