Method and apparatus for generating microcontroller configuration information

A method for configuring a microcontroller containing a plurality of dynamically configurable blocks comprising:

• a) accessing a text based description of said dynamically configurable blocks, wherein said dynamically configurable blocks can be configured to produce a variety of functions and said text based description is not executable software;
• b) selecting available configurations of said dynamically configurable blocks, wherein said selecting produces a selected configuration;
• and
• c) generating configuration information corresponding to said selected configuration.

A system comprising:

• a processor coupled to a bus;
• a memory coupled to said bus and wherein said memory contains instructions that when executed on said processor implement a method for configuring a microcontroller, said method comprising:
• a) accessing a text readable description of a plurality of dynamically configurable blocks of said microcontroller, wherein said dynamically configurable blocks can be configured to produce a variety of functions;
• b) selecting available configurations of said dynamically configurable blocks, wherein said selecting produces a selected configuration;
• and
• c) generating configuration information corresponding to said selected configuration.

A computer usable medium having computer readable code stored thereon for causing a computer system to perform a method for configuring a microcontroller, said method comprising:

• a) accessing a text readable description of hardware resources of said microcontroller, wherein said text readable description is not microcontroller executable;
• b) selecting available configurations of said hardware resources of said microcontroller, wherein said selecting produces a selected configuration;
• c) generating microcontroller executable configuration information corresponding to said selected configuration;
• d) generating an interrupt vector table for use by embedded software, wherein a plurality of interrupts included in said interrupt vector table are generated by said selected configuration.