Arbiter

{
  "id": "MLC-T-IND-000264",
  "term": "Arbiter",
  "field": "Industrial and trades",
  "definition": "A control mechanism or circuit that manages access to a shared resource among multiple competing requesters in a system. It resolves conflicts by granting access based on predefined priority rules or fairness algorithms. In digital systems, arbiters are often implemented in hardware to manage bus access or memory requests.",
  "subject": "Energy and utilities",
  "references": [
    "Arbiter (electronics) (Wikipedia)"
  ],
  "translations": {
    "de": "Arbiter",
    "es": "árbitro",
    "fr": "arbitre"
  },
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/industrial/arbiter/"
}