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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 12, 2005
Filed:
Oct. 26, 2001
Applicants:
Jonathan William Brawn, Burwell, GB;
James Roy Alphey, Cambridge, GB;
Inventors:
Jonathan William Brawn, Burwell, GB;
James Roy Alphey, Cambridge, GB;
Assignee:
ARM Limited, Cambridge, GB;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F017/50 ; G06F019/00 ; G06F009/445 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An integrated circuit containing a plurality of data processing circuit elementsandis provided with a configuration data memory. Upon initialisation of the integrated circuit, configuration data is read from the configuration data memoryand used to set up configuration program softwarethat controls the interaction between application program softwareand the integrated circuit. The configuration data is automatically formed from a human readable hierarchical description of the integrated circuitin the form of an ASN.1 description.