Patent ID: 9390043
Filing Date: 2016-07-12
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. A trigger-routing system for controlling a sequence of events, the system comprising: a plurality of programmable registers, each register associated with one of a plurality of slave modules; selection circuitry for associating, based on the contents of one of the plurality of registers, one of a plurality of master modules to one of the plurality of slave modules; an input port of the trigger-routing system for receiving, from the master module associated with the slave module, a trigger signal indicating completion of a first event at the master module; and an output port of the trigger-routing system for sending, to the slave module associated with the master module, the trigger signal to thereby trigger a second event at the slave module, wherein the second event is triggered without involvement from a core processing unit to trigger the second event and wherein the core processing unit is communicatively connected to the plurality of slave modules and the plurality of master modules over a data and/or address bus.