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US 7,599,299 B2Granted
Dynamic reconfiguration of a system monitor (DRPORT)
AssigneeXilinx, Inc.
InventorsF. Erich Goetting, John McGrath, Anthony J. Collins
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Abstract
Method and apparatus for a dynamically reconfigurable system monitor (20) are described. A system monitor (20) has registers (206) accessible via a reconfiguration port (201). At least one of the registers may be dynamically reconfigured via the reconfiguration port (201) to select a channel to be monitored or to store an alarm value to be used in monitoring by the system monitor (20). Additionally, the system monitor (20) may be embedded in a columnar block architecture.
Claims6
A method of system monitoring, comprising:
- providing a system monitor having registers accessible via a reconfiguration port;
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- dynamically reconfiguring at least one of the registers via the reconfiguration port to select a channel to be monitored by the system monitor;
- the system monitor including an analog-to-digital converter;
- wherein the dynamically reconfiguring is performed while operating the analog-to-digital converter.
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