Method and assembly for writing software and/or firmware onto a programmable integrated circuit

An assembly for wirelessly writing software and/or firmware onto at least one programmable integrated circuit, composed of at least one RFID circuit that is arranged on a common carrier (6) and is addressable by an external RFID unit, and including the at least one programmable integrated circuit (1), an RFID front end (3) with an RFID antenna (4), and a wired near field interface (2) coupling the RFID front end to the programmable integrated circuit wherein

• the programmable integrated circuit (1) is an MCU chip or an FPGA chip,
• the writing of the software and/or firmware as flashing the programmable MCU or FPGA is performed wirelessly by means of RFID data transmission, wherein
• the at least one programmable integrated circuit (1), the near field interface (2) for writing software and/or firmware onto the programmable integrated circuit, the RFID front end (3) and the antenna (4) are arranged as an entire assembly on the common carrier (6),
• wherein the wired near field interface is implemented in hardware structures within the RFID front end (3) and/or in hardware structures of the programmable integrated circuit (1), and
• wherein the wired near field interface (2) has master functionality, in which sending of data to the programmable integrated circuit (1) is executable in an active manner and without being requested to do so.

A method for writing software and/or firmware onto at least one programmable integrated circuit (1),

• characterized in that
• the writing of the software and/or firmware is performed wirelessly by means of RFID data transmission, wherein
• the at least one programmable integrated circuit (1) is coupled to an RFID front end (3) via a wired near field interface (2), wherein the RFID front end (3) has an RFID antenna device (4), and wherein the software and/or firmware to be written is sent wirelessly from an external RFID unit to the RFID antenna device and is written onto the programmable integrated circuit (1) via the RFID front end (3) and the near field interface (2), and wherein
• the programmable integrated circuit (1), the RFID front end (3) coupled via the wired near field interface (2), and the RFID antenna device (4) included within the RFID front end, each are formed as a plurality of individual transponder units or as RFID transponder units arranged on a common carrier, wherein the plurality of the RFID transponder units is brought commonly as a group into the area of the external writing unit and is programmed.