Semiconductor device, bus control circuit and bus control method
AssigneeRenesas Electronics Corporation
InventorKeisuke Jo
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Abstract
A semiconductor device includes a bus control circuit that controls access to a slave shared by a plurality of masters. The bus control circuit includes a plurality of priority determination circuits corresponding to the plurality of masters. The priority determination circuit is configured to, when receiving an urgent access from a corresponding master, change a priority level signal included in an access request from the corresponding master to allocate a high priority level for emergency and allocate a low priority level to a master other than the corresponding master.
Claims8
A semiconductor device comprising:
- a plurality of masters;
- a slave;
- and
- a bus control circuit that controls access to the slave shared by the plurality of masters,
- wherein the bus control circuit includes a plurality of priority determination circuits corresponding to the plurality of masters,
- wherein the priority determination circuit is configured to, when receiving an urgent access from a corresponding master, i) change a priority level signal included in an access request from the corresponding master and allocate a high priority level for emergency, and ii) allocate a low priority level to a master other than the corresponding master,
- wherein the bus control circuit further includes:
- a plurality of band adjustment circuits corresponding to the plurality of masters;
- and
- a bus arbitration circuit corresponding to the slave,
- wherein the band adjustment circuits are configured to control a bus band to be allocated to access from a corresponding master on a basis of priority level signals input from the plurality of priority determination circuits, and
- wherein the bus arbitration circuit is configured to arbitrate a priority order of each access on a basis of the priority level signals input from the plurality of priority determination circuits.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.