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US 8,572,363 B2Granted
Coupling an FPGA unit to a memory using a digital potentimeter
AssigneeSennheiser electronic GmbH & Co. KG
InventorsTom-Fabian Frey, Jan Watermann
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Abstract
There is provided an electronic device comprising an FPGA unit (100), a first and a second memory (210, 220) for storing boot data for the FPGA unit and a digital potentiometer (300) for storing a first and a second setting. In the first setting of the potentiometer the first memory (210) is coupled to the FPGA unit (100) and in the second setting of the potentiometer the second memory (220) is coupled to the FPGA unit (100) for booting.
Claims5
An electronic device comprising:
- an FPGA unit,
- a first and a second memory for storing boot data for the FPGA unit, and
- a digital potentiometer for storing a first setting and a second setting,
- wherein in the first setting of the digital potentiometer the first memory is coupled to the FPGA unit and wherein in the second setting of the digital potentiometer the second memory is coupled to the FPGA unit, the digital potentiometer having a slider position for non-volatilely switching between the first setting and the second setting.
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A method of controlling an electronic device which has an FPGA unit comprising the steps:
- storing boot data for the FPGA unit in a first and a second memory,
- storing a first setting and a second setting in a digital potentiometer,
- non-volatilely coupling the first memory to the FPGA unit in the first setting of the digital potentiometer using a slider position of the digital potentiometer,
- non-volatilely coupling the second memory to the FPGA unit in the second setting of the digital potentiometer using a slider position of the digital potentiometer, and
- booting the FPGA unit in the second setting of the digital potentiometer using boot data from the second memory.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.