Data driven method and system for monitoring hardware resource usage for programming an electronic device

A device editor system for programming a microcontroller device having programmable resources, comprising:

• a user module selection workspace for providing a plurality of selectable pre-configured user modules to be programmed into said microcontroller device;
• a data driven resource monitoring system for providing data representing selected resource characteristics of selected user modules;
• a resource manager workspace for tracking real-time resource usage of said selected user modules based on said monitoring system, wherein resource usage characteristics to be tracked are selected by a user;
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• a database for storing pre-defined resource usage information of said user modules.

A data driven method for designing a system on a chip comprising:

• a) selecting a user module from a series of catalogs of user module types found in a user module selection workspace, wherein said selecting causes display of datasheet information regarding said selected user module;
• b) placing said user module within a graphical representation of a hardware resource of a programmable circuit and using a user module placement workspace comprising a graphical layout of hardware resources of said programmable circuit;
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• c) interactively monitoring hardware resource usage information of said selected user module when said user module is selected from said series of catalogs of user module types, wherein resource usage characteristics to be monitored are selected by a user.

A method of programming an electronic circuit having programmable resources, said method comprising:

• a) selecting a user module from a plurality of user modules, wherein each user module defines an electronic circuit design to be implemented using a portion of said programmable resources and wherein each user module has defined a respective data file describing its resource requirements;
• b) based on a user module selection, automatically updating a resource monitor display illustrating resource usage of said electronic circuit by selected user modules, wherein resource usage characteristics to be monitored are selected by a user;
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• c) rendering said resource monitor display.