A method and apparatus are provided for efficiently operating a round robin arbitration system in a given computer system. The system utilizes a series of banks of requestors and pointer. The banks of requestors and pointers operate on sequential AND-OR-Inverter/OR-AND-Inverter (AOI/OAI) logic to advance...http://www.google.de/patents/US7231479?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US7231479 - Round robin selection logic improves area efficiency and circuit speed