Texas Instruments Corporation

Paul Arthur Gingrich

Jonathan Dzoba

Edmund Sim

Gary L Swoboda

Alan Davis

Leland J Szewerenko

Steven Derrick Clynes

Jiuling Liu

Darian Robert Peter Sale

Shing Fu Pang

Mandeep Singh Deol

Victor Xi Yang

Kenneth E Aron

Andrew Edward Waterson

Sambandam Manohar

Paul Ian Strathdee Marshall

Greg N DaSilva

Raju Pandey

This invention is a signal input/output design tool for integrated circuit input/output design. The connectivity capacity of at least multiplexer connecting internal signals and external lines is expressed as a first set of Boolean expressions. The desired connectivity between internal signals and external lines is expressed is provided by a designer. A programmed general purpose computer expresses the desired connectivity as a second set of Boolean expressions and determines whether said first set of Boolean expressions and said second set of Boolean expressions are Boolean satisfiable. If satisfiable, the design tool generates control signals to configure the at least one multiplexer to achieve the desired connectivity. If not satisfiable, the design tool generates a report indicating which portions of the desired connectivity are achievable and which are not.

Device pin mux configuration solving and code generation via Boolean satisfiability

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

An integrated code development tool, comprising of an editor, a project management and build system, a debugger, a profiler, and a graphical data visualization system. The editor is operable to provide a source code view which is simultaneously capable of integrating with said debugger to provide for stepping through code and setting breakpoints, and integrating with the output of said build system to display source code interleaved with corresponding assembler code created by said build system.

Integrated development tool

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Toronto, Canada

Paul Arthur Gingrich