Abstract: A device includes: a request-storage unit including entries configured to store requests and stopping issuance of a stored request when a flag is set based on an input configuration notification, in which the request-storage unit outputs a warning notification when the request stored in any of the entries has not been processed for more than a predetermined amount of time; a derived request-storage unit including derived entries configured to store derived requests derived from processing of requests stored in the request-storage unit; an arbitrating unit configured to arbitrate requests stored in the request-storage unit and derived requests stored in the derived request-storage unit, and to output the configuration notification based on the warning notification output from the request-storage unit; and a request-processing unit configured to process requests or derived requests arbitrated by the arbitrating unit, and to request-storage of derived requests derived by processing requests into the derived-stor