Reduced bus acquisition time in distributed arbitration systems
M. Makhaniok, V. Cherniavsky, Reinhard Männer, O. Stucky · Electronics Letters · 1989
A new method for identifying the stable state in distributed arbitration schemes as used in modem multiprocessor buses like Futurebus is suggested. It exploits the dependence of the arbitration time on the arbitration numbers, which is introduced in this letter, the method allows to reduce bus acquisition time without considerable changes to the system, for example by more than a factor of 1.3 for Futurebus. This method allows to improve the performance of standard buses by only introducing individual arbitration delays for bus requestors.