Arbitration device for arbitrating among a plurality of master devices, arbitration method, and video processing device including the arbitration device

The arbitration device according to claim 2, whereinnthe upper limit value is an average bandwidth,the counter corresponding to the specific master device further includes an expanded upper limit value,the expanded upper limit value is more than the upper limit value, and corresponds to a burst bandwidth,during the predetermined first period the arbitration device continues to permit an access request by the specific master device until the counter value of the counter corresponding to the specific master device reaches the expanded upper limit value, andthe second period is a period (i) from when the counter value of the counter corresponding to the specific master device has reached the expanded upper limit value, (ii) to when the counter value of the counter corresponding to the specific master device returns to an initial value, due to the counter value of the counter corresponding to the specific master device being decremented every time the predetermined unit time elapses.