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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 09, 2002
Filed:
Aug. 29, 2000
Mitchell E. Goodman, Coral Springs, FL (US);
Charles B. Swope, Coral Springs, FL (US);
Patrick D. Koskan, Lake Worth, FL (US);
Jason A. Rapps, Coral Springs, FL (US);
Daniel A. Tealdi, Hialeah, FL (US);
Motorola, Inc., Schaumburg, IL (US);
Abstract
A communication device provides for a hardware configurable module interface port by using a programmable logic device ( ). The programmable logic device ( ) is reconfigured using software stored in memory ( ). The reconfiguration of programmable logic device ( ) depends on the type of module ( ) that is attached to the communication device. Since data translation is not required to be performed by each of the different types of modules that can be attached to the communication device, the time to develop a module is shortened and support circuitry requirements to perform data translation is reduced.