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Latest revision as of 08:30, 19 March 2023

Arbitration is the process of deciding which of several competing entities will be given access to a particular resource. In hardware, there are two basic ways to do this; the system might use a single central arbiter, or there might be some sort of distributed arbitration mechanism.

See also