Reconfigurable Modular Computing Device
AssigneeEntegra Technologies, Inc.
InventorDouglas Lee Fowler
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Abstract
A configurable computing device comprising a housing, a printed circuit board disposed within the housing, a first microcontroller and a second microcontroller each coupled to the PCB, wherein the first microcontroller and the second microcontroller are in electrical signal communication with each other, a computer-on-module (COM) coupled to the PCB, wherein the COM is in electrical signal communication with the first microcontroller and the second microcontroller, and one or more peripheral modules coupled to the PCB, wherein, the peripheral modules are each in electrical signal communication with the first microcontroller and wherein, the peripheral modules are each in electrical signal communication with the COM via the second microcontroller.
Claims20
A configurable computing device comprising:
- a housing;
- a printed circuit board (PCB) disposed within the housing;
- a computer-on-module (COM) removably coupled to the PCB;
- one or more peripheral modules coupled to the PCB;
- a first microcontroller coupled to the PCB,
- wherein the first microcontroller is in electrical signal communication with the COM and the peripheral modules,
- wherein the first microcontroller is configured to:
- interrogate the COM and the peripheral modules,
- generate a COM profile in response to interrogating the COM, and
- generate a peripheral module profile in response to interrogating the peripheral modules;
- and
- a second microcontroller couple to the PCB,
- wherein the second microcontroller is in electrical signal communication with the first microcontroller, the COM, and the peripheral modules,
- wherein the second microcontroller is configurable to establish a route of electrical signal communication between the COM and the peripheral modules via the second microcontroller.
A device configuring method comprising:
- receiving device information from a computer-on-module (COM) at a first microcontroller;
- generating a COM profile in response to receiving the device information from the COM;
- receiving device information from a peripheral module at the first microcontroller;
- generating a peripheral module profile in response to receiving the device information from the peripheral module;
- and
- sending the COM profile and the peripheral module profile to a second microcontroller, wherein the second microcontroller establishes a route of electrical signal communication between the COM and the peripheral module via the second microcontroller based on the COM profile and the peripheral module profile.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.