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in chipset.Other systems use decentralized bus arbitration, where all the devices cooperate to decide who goes next.

When every CPU connected to the memory arbiter has synchronized memory access cycles, the memory arbiter can be designed as a synchronous arbiter.Otherwise the memory arbiter must be designed as an asynchronous arbiter.

Asynchronous arbiters

An important form of arbiter is used in asynchronous circuits to select the order of access to a shared resource among

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