Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro Edition User Guide: Platform Designer

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Date 10/04/2021
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5.1.5.1. Round-Robin Arbitration

When multiple hosts contend for access to an agent, Platform Designer automatically inserts arbitration logic which grants access in fairness-based, round-robin order.

In a fairness-based arbitration protocol, each host has an integer value of transfer shares with respect to an agent. One share represents permission to perform one transfer. The default arbitration scheme is equal share round-robin that grants equal, sequential access to all requesting hosts. You can change the arbitration scheme to weighted round-robin by specifying a relative number of arbitration shares to the hosts that access a given agent. AXI slaves have separate arbitration for their independent read and write channels, and the Arbitration Shares setting affects both the read and write arbitration. To display arbitration settings, right-click an instance on the System View tab, and then click Show Arbitration Shares.

Figure 157. Arbitration Shares in the Connections Column