The present invention provides for an on-chip communications method with fully distributed control combining a fully-pipelined, fixed-latency, synchronous bus with a two-level arbitration scheme where the first level of arbitration is a framed, time-division-multiplexing arbitration scheme and the second...http://www.google.co.uk/patents/US5948089?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US5948089 - Fully-pipelined fixed-latency communications system with a real time dynamic bandwidth allocation
