An embedded system bus is woven between a plurality of embedded master elements and at least one slave element within the FPGA device, and provides an external processor interface allowing direct access to any of the plurality of embedded slave elements. Using the embedded system bus, any of a plurality...http://www.google.com.au/patents/US6483342?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US6483342 - Multi-master multi-slave system bus in a field programmable gate array (FPGA)