Re: Latency Timer Register Implementation

[Lloyd Bircher <nicad2@yahoo.com>]

Ravi,

The answer to your second question is that the arbiter
will grant the bus to another master if the previous
master completes it's transaction before the MLT
reaches it maximum count.  MLT is just a guaranteed
time slice.

Lloyd Bircher

> 1. Can LT register value will be more than 16?
>    In our Bridge, there are  many agents which will
> require
>    More than 16 DWords of transfer, and there is no
> mechanisam
>    to program LT Register from agent side.
> 
>  2. How the Arbiter will take care, if any agent de
> asserted Frame
>     indicating that transaction completed, before
> the LT register
>     count is not reached its maximun value.


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