Patent ID: 7953899
Filing Date: 2011-05-31
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method for an interface application to provide a user access to device registers in different types of computer hardware devices in a computer system for debugging the system, the method comprising: providing a set of universal commands for accessing the device registers in the computer hardware devices; receiving a first universal command entered by one or more users to access first data in first device registers of a first computer hardware device; translating the first universal command to read and write commands in a first command structure of the first computer hardware device; transmitting the read and write commands in the first command structure to the first computer hardware device over a first bus; receiving a second universal command entered by the one or more users to access second data in second device registers of a second computer hardware device, the second device registers having a different bit width size than the first device registers; translating the second universal command to read commands in a second command structure of the second computer hardware device, the first and the second command structures being different; and transmitting the read commands in the second command structure to the second computer hardware device over a second bus, the second bus being a different bus type than the first bus.