Patent ID: 6370496
Filing Date: 2002-04-09
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
A human-operable system for intelligent visualization and control of control and status registers of computer hardware in a hardware and software design debug workstation, said workstation having a processing means for executing control software, a user display device, a user input device, and one or more means for microprocessor in-circuit emulation, said emulation means having one or more bit-mapped control and status registers, said system comprising:one or more device registry data files receivable by said processing means and operable by said software being executed by said controller processing means, said device data registry files containing one or more relational definitions of bit field values for said bit-mapped control and status registers of said computer hardware to human interpretable values, such that said processing means may perform upon command from a human operator received at said input device a conversion of bit field values to said human interpretable values; and a bit field display and manipulation means for displaying said human interpretable values and for receiving from a human operator input for said control and status registers in a human interpretable value.