Texas Instruments Corporation

Edmund Sim

Paul Arthur Gingrich

Jonathan Dzoba

Gary L Swoboda

Alan Davis

Leland J Szewerenko

Jiuling Liu

Kenneth E Aron

Sambandam Manohar

The invention relates to a software system and method for dynamically varying context sensitive menus of a software system. In this method, a menu item is added to a context sensitive menu of a graphical user interface (GUI) at the request of a subsystem module. Then, an activation event for the context sensitive menu is received from the GUI. The added menu item is displayed as either active or inactive based on a response to a query from the software system to a second subsystem module. The action associated with the menu item specified by the first subsystem module is executed when the menu item is selected only if it is active.

Configurable debug system with dynamic menus

The invention relates to a software system and method for configuring a software system for interaction with a hardware system. In this method, the software system ( ) is executed on a host processor interconnected with the hardware system ( ). A database ( ) is accessed to obtain a description of a set of functional components present within the hardware system ( ). A software representation ( ) of the capabilities of each functional component is created by using the description of the set of functional components. Then, the software representation ( ) is interrogated to determine a set of operational capabilities of the hardware system ( ). The software system ( ) is then operated in a manner that is responsive to the set of operational capabilities of the hardware system ( ).

System and method for automatically configuring a debug system

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