To implement the mux tree that feeds into RAM ports, we need to know the
port index of the grantee to be able to wire it up. In theory we could
dispense with the per-port grant signal, but keeping it around allows
each client to deal with local concerns separate from the port routing.
Rather than hardcode one architecture for GARY, the arbiters
are now split and can be allocated per-port. The arbiter interface
includes plumbing so that one arbiter can propagate a write conflict
to another, so it can still implement multi-port arbitration as long
as every client is statically allocated to one port.
David Anderson