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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 01, 2009
Filed:
Oct. 28, 2005
Andrew Draper, Chesham, GB;
Iain Scott, Witney, GB;
Paul Riley, Burnham, GB;
Altera Corporation, San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
An operating system for a processor in a hardware device is configured by reading data defining a configuration of the hardware device. Based on the defined configuration of the hardware device, it is determined which operating system configuration options, from a plurality of available operating system configuration options, are valid. Then, only the valid operating system configuration options are presented to a user. The hardware device may be a fixed hardware platform, or may be a configurable hardware device such as an FPGA. The data defining the configuration of the hardware device can be read from a high level design entry tool.