Abstract: The present disclosure describes systems and methods for arbitrating between a plurality of devices competing for a system resource. Operations of the system and method may include, but are not limited to: initializing two or more previous grant request states; generating an access grant signal according to the two or more requests for access to the shared resource, two or more token states and the two or more previous grant request states; and generating an access grant signal according to the two or more requests for access to the shared resource, two or more token states and the two or more previous grant request states.

Abstract: A fully-static dual-voltage sense circuit designed for a mixed-voltage system senses the power-rail voltage of other devices that the device is interfaced with, and achieves a low-power consumption level without software assistance when the sensing circuit is active, and protects low-voltage process devices in the circuit from possible high voltage damage at the interface. In a preferred embodiment, the present invention includes an integrated circuit having a dual-voltage sense circuit, the sense circuit including a sense circuit input node supplied with an input voltage Vin; a sense circuit power input node supplied with a power-supply voltage; and a sense circuit output node outputting a digital signal of a voltage level equal to or less than the voltage level of a low-voltage digital signal, regardless of the voltage level of the input voltage.

Abstract: An instruction clock of a processing unit in a low power mode in accordance with the principles of the present invention is qualified with a burst mode control signal. The burst mode control signal is allowed to start and stop the instruction flow of the relevant processing unit. In the disclosed embodiment, a master clock signal is qualified by a clock control circuit to provide bursts of an instruction clock signal to the relevant processing unit. To operate the burst instruction cycle control unit, a user pre-programs a burst length, into a register to set the length of the burst of instruction cycles to the relevant processing unit. A maximum counter value in a counter sets the period of the instruction cycle bursts provided to the relevant processing unit.

Abstract: A clock generator is described for generating an output clock frequency from an input clock frequency where the frequencies of the clocks are not integrally related. The division process is designed using the quotients of the Euclidean theorem for determining the greatest common divisor of two integers in such a way as to alleviate the adverse effects of jitter. Applications to oversampled sigma-delta codecs are described.

Abstract: A data bus having a given size (e.g., 32 bits) provides for transfer of information between various logic and memory elements within, or among, one or more integrated circuits. Certain of the information transfers require the full information path, while others use only a portion (e.g., 8 or 16 bit transfers). To expedite the transfers of the smaller size words, a given word is replicated to fill up the full data base. This avoids the necessity of specifying the exact location of the smaller word on the data bus.