Patent ID: 11934167
Assignee: GOWIN SEMICONDUCTOR CORPORATION
Field: Control (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G  Y | IPC G

Claim 14:
15. A method of configuring a field-programmable gate array (“FPGA”) containing a configurable microcontroller unit (“MCU”) via a two-phase configuration process, the method comprising:
downloading a first bit map from a cloud system via a communication network through a communication bus to a first configuration memory;
programming FPGA in response to the first bit map to contain at least a portion of a configurable MCU containing at least one programmable bit for subsequent programming of an MCU attribute by a user to emulate a processor function able to execute instructions;
downloading a second bit map from the cloud system to a second configuration memory via the communication network through the communication bus; and
programming the at least one programmable bit of the configurable MCU in response to the second bit map.