Method for parameterizing a user module

• US 7,761,845 B1
• Filed: 09/09/2002
• Issued: 07/20/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 09/09/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Cypress Semiconductor Corporation (Infineon Technologies AG)
• Original Assignee: Cypress Semiconductor Corporation (Infineon Technologies AG)
• Inventors: Perrin, Jon, Seguine, Dennis
• Primary Examiner(s): MITCHELL, JASON D
• Application Number:
  US10/238,966
• Time in Patent Office: 2,871 Days
• Field of Search: 716 4- 5, 717110-113, 717106-109, 717/100, 703 14- 28
• US Class Current: 717/109
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/20 Software design
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/44505 Configuring for program initiating, e.g. using registry, configuration files

Abstract

A method for parameterizing a user module. A first design application corresponding to a parameter of a user module is accessed, wherein the user module is a pre-configured electronic design to be implemented on a microcontroller. The parameter is adjusted within the first design application to derive parameterized data. In response to a command, the parameterized data is automatically loaded into a second design application.

Claims

1. A method of parameterizing a user module, said method comprising:

accessing a first application associated with a parameter of said user module, wherein said user module is a pre-configured electronic design to be implemented on a programmable system on a chip, wherein said user module utilizes at least one block of said programmable system on a chip to implement a predetermined functionality;

generating parameterized data in response to an adjustment of said parameter using said first application, wherein said parameterized data is associated with operating characteristics of said user module implemented on said programmable system on a chip; and

automatically loading said parameterized data into a second application, said second application for programming said programmable system on a chip based upon said parameterized data, and in accordance with a specified interconnection between said user module and at least one additional user module of said programmable system on a chip, and wherein said programmable system on a chip comprises a manufactured integrated circuit.

2. The method as recited in claim 1 further comprising:

accessing said first application in response to a selection of said parameter within a graphical interface of said second application.

3. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein said second application is further operable to program said programmable system on a chip in accordance with a specified pin-out associated with said programmable system on a chip.

4. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein said first application comprises an external application separate from said second application.

5. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein said automatically loading said parameterized data into said second application comprises automatically loading said parameterized data into said second application in response to a command, and wherein said command is selected from a group consisting of a closing of said first application and a transferring of control from said first application to said second application.

6. The method as recited in claim 1 further comprising:

loading said parameterized data into a parameter field of a graphical interface of said second application, wherein said parameter field corresponds to said parameter.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein said at least one block is selected from a group consisting of at least one analog block and at least one digital block.

8. A computer-usable medium having computer-readable program code embodied therein for causing a computer system to perform a method of parameterizing a user module, said method comprising:

accessing a first application associated with a parameter of said user module, wherein said user module is a pre-configured electronic design to be implemented on a programmable system on a chip, wherein said user module utilizes at least one block of said programmable system on a chip to implement a predetermined functionality;

generating parameterized data in response to an adjustment of said parameter using said first application, wherein said parameterized data is associated with operating characteristics of said user module implemented on said programmable system on a chip; and

automatically loading said parameterized data into a second application, said second application for programming said programmable system on a chip based upon said parameterized data, and in accordance with a specified interconnection between said user module and at least one additional user module of said programmable system on a chip, and wherein said programmable system on a chip comprises a manufactured integrated circuit.

9. The computer-usable medium as recited in claim 8, wherein said method further comprises:

accessing said first application in response to a selection of said parameter within a graphical interface of said second application.

10. The computer-usable medium as recited in claim 8, wherein said second application is further operable to program said programmable system on a chip in accordance with a specified pin-out associated with said programmable system on a chip.

11. The computer-usable medium as recited in claim 8, wherein said first application comprises an external application separate from said second application.

12. The computer-usable medium as recited in claim 8, wherein said automatically loading said parameterized data into said second application comprises automatically loading said parameterized data into said second application in response to a command, and wherein said command is selected from a group consisting of a closing of said first application and a transferring of control from said first application to said second application.

13. The computer-usable medium as recited in claim 8, wherein said method further comprises:

loading said parameterized data into a parameter field of a graphical interface of said second application, wherein said parameter field corresponds to said parameter.

14. The computer-usable medium of claim 8, wherein said at least one block is selected from a group consisting of at least one analog block and at least one digital block.

15. A display device having rendered thereon a graphical user interface, said graphical user interface comprising:

a first display region displaying a first application associated with a parameter of a user module, wherein said user module is a pre-configured electronic design to be implemented on a programmable system on a chip, wherein said user module utilizes at least one block of said programmable system on a chip to implement a predetermined functionality, said first application for generating parameterized data in response to an adjustment of said parameter using said first application, wherein said parameterized data is associated with operating characteristics of said user module implemented on said programmable system on a chip; and

a second display region displaying a second application configured to receive said parameterized data, said second application for programming said programmable system on a chip based upon said parameterized data, and in accordance with a specified interconnection between said user module and at least one additional user module of said programmable system on a chip, and wherein said programmable system on a chip comprises a manufactured integrated circuit.

16. The display device as recited in claim 15, wherein said second application is further operable to program said programmable system on a chip in accordance with a specified pin-out associated with said programmable system on a chip.

17. The display device as recited in claim 15, wherein said first application comprises an external application separate from said second application.

18. The display device as recited in claim 15, wherein said parameterized data is automatically loaded into said second application in response to a command, and wherein said command is selected from a group consisting of a closing of said first application and a transferring of control from said first application to said second application.

19. The display device as recited in claim 15, wherein said parameterized data is loaded into a parameter field of said second display region, wherein said parameter field corresponds to said parameter.

20. The display device of claim 15, wherein said at least one block is selected from a group consisting of at least one analog block and at least one digital block.