US 12,284,122 B1
Circuit and method for resource arbitration
Joseph Featherston, Boston, MA (US); and Aadeetya Shreedhar, Natick, MA (US)
Assigned to Marvell Asia Pte Ltd, Singapore (SG)
Filed by Marvell Asia Pte Ltd, Singapore (SG)
Filed on Feb. 6, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/434,294.
Application 18/434,294 is a continuation of application No. 17/932,084, filed on Sep. 14, 2022, granted, now 11,929,940.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/395,947, filed on Aug. 8, 2022.
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G06F 13/36 (2006.01); H04L 47/783 (2022.01); H04L 47/80 (2022.01)
CPC H04L 47/783 (2013.01) [H04L 47/805 (2013.01)] 38 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A circuit comprising:
a pending arbiter (PA) configured to output a PA selection for accessing a resource; and
a valid arbiter (VA) configured to output a VA selection for accessing the resource, the circuit configured to (i) perform a validity check on the PA selection output and (ii) output a final selection for accessing the resource by selecting, based on the validity check performed, between the PA selection output and the VA selection output.