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

Claim 0:
1. A method for writing software and/or firmware onto at least one programmable integrated circuit (1),
characterized in that
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) is coupled to an RFID front end (3) via a wired near field interface (2), wherein the RFID front end (3) has an RFID antenna device (4), and wherein the software and/or firmware to be written is sent wirelessly from an external RFID unit to the RFID antenna device and is written onto the programmable integrated circuit (1) via the RFID front end (3) and the near field interface (2), 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 a 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.