Patent ID: 11960956
Assignee: FRAUNHOFER GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FÖRDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 9:
10. An assembly for wirelessly writing software and/or firmware onto at least one programmable integrated circuit, composed of at least one RFID circuit that is arranged on a common carrier (6) and is addressable by an external RFID unit, and including the at least one programmable integrated circuit (1), an RFID front end (3) with an RFID antenna (4), and a wired near field interface (2) coupling the RFID front end to the programmable integrated circuit wherein
the programmable integrated circuit (1) is an MCU chip or an FPGA chip,
the writing of the software and/or firmware as flashing the programmable MCU or FPGA is performed wirelessly by means of RFID data transmission, wherein
the at least one programmable integrated circuit (1), the near field interface (2) for writing software and/or firmware onto the programmable integrated circuit, the RFID front end (3) and the antenna (4) are arranged as an entire assembly on the common carrier (6),
wherein the wired near field interface is implemented in hardware structures within the RFID front end (3) and/or in hardware structures of the programmable integrated circuit (1), and
wherein the wired near field interface (2) has master functionality, in which sending of data to the programmable integrated circuit (1) is executable in an active manner and without being requested to do so.