Bus Arbitration
  • Bus arbitration is the method that is used to decide which bus master will get control of the bus next.
  • Factors in granting the bus to a device:
    • priority
    • fairness
  • bus arbitration schemes
    • daisy chain arbitration
    • centralized arbitration
    • distributed arbitration by self-selection
    • distributed arbitration by collision detection
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