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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 31, 2004
Filed:
Mar. 02, 2001
Jonathan Dzoba, Sugarland, TX (US);
Gary L. Swoboda, Sugarland, TX (US);
Sambandam Manohar, Bangalore, IN;
Kenneth E. Aron, Angleton, TX (US);
Leland J. Szewerenko, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Paul Gingrich, Toronto, CA;
Jiuling Liu, Sugarland, TX (US);
Alan L. Davis, Sugarland, TX (US);
Edmund Sim, Toronto, CA;
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Abstract
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 ( ).