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US 2009/0024834 A1Published application
Multiprocessor apparatus
AssigneeNEC Electronics Corporation
InventorsShinji Kashiwagi, Hiroyuki Nakajima
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Abstract
Disclosed is a multiprocessor apparatus including a plurality of processors connected to a common bus, a co-processor provided in common to the processors, and an arbitration circuit that arbitrates contention among the processors with respect to use of a resource in the co-processor through a tightly coupled bus by the processors.
Claims12
A multiprocessor apparatus comprising:
- a plurality of processors;
- a co-processor connected through a tightly coupled bus to at least one processors of the plurality of processors;
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- an arbitration circuit that arbitrates contention among a plurality of the processors inclusive of the at least one processor with respect to use of a resource in the co-processor through the tightly coupled bus.
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