Patent ID: 8285951
Filing Date: 2012-10-09
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A control apparatus for controlling at least one peripheral device, comprising: a non-volatile storage element, for storing at least one control information set of the peripheral device; and a controller, externally coupled to the nonvolatile storage element, comprising a read-only storage element which stores a segment of program code, and for executing the segment of program code to read at least part of the control information set from the non-volatile storage element to control an operation of the peripheral device; wherein the non-volatile storage element stores a plurality of control information sets of the peripheral device; the controller executes the segment of program code and further applies parsing to the plurality of control information stored in the non-volatile storage element to generate an information structure which has not been generated in the plurality of control information, and stores the information structure in a look-up table; and the controller reads the at least part of the control information from the non-volatile storage element according to the information structure stored in the look-up table, or update at least part of control information sets of the plurality of the control information sets stored in the non-volatile storage element according to the information structure stored in the look-up table.