Pipelined
Tree Arbiter – Naïve Solution
CE-653 - Handshake Channel
Design
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}The Problem Scenario
}All 4 requests arrive at same time
}Output generates 1-bit output
}Which of the 4 requests does this 1-bit
output identify?
}Need notion of addresses
to distinguish between 4 requests
N.B. Assume this Merge
operates on 1-bit data channels