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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 31, 2010
Filed:
Dec. 17, 2003
Lonnie Goff, Tempe, AZ (US);
Lonnie Goff, Tempe, AZ (US);
NXP B.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Abstract
A technique is provided for configuring and controlling complex hardware subsystems that relieves the burden placed on the system programmer and that is, by comparison to present methods, safe and error-free. In accordance with one aspect of the invention, configuration of a hardware subsystem () is accomplished by providing in hardware a configuration controller including a controller portion () and a storage portion () storing configuration parameters. The configuration controller () is activated, for example in response to a Configuration/Control ID, and thereupon performs configuration of the hardware subsystem (), including storing at least one configuration parameter in a register () of the hardware subsystem. Typically, the configuration controller hardware () and storage () are embedded within the hardware subsystem to be configured or controlled. The configuration/control functionality is thus 'encapsulated' within the hardware subsystem () itself such that the system programmer need not be concerned with details.