Patent ID: 6845444

Claim:
A method for reducing strapping devices in a computer system having at least one configurable device, the method comprising: (a) providing a configuration value stored in a non-volatile memory; (b) asserting a processor reset signal and a bus reset signal of a high-speed peripheral bus, wherein the high-speed peripheral bus is included in the computer system; (c) fetching the configuration value from the non-volatile memory when an operation clock reaches its working voltage and frequency, wherein the high-speed peripheral bus works at the operation clock; (d) repeating the step (c) until a most significant bit (MSB) of a fetched configuration value changes from a first state to a second state; (e) asserting the configuration value fetched from the non-volatile memory to the at least one configurable device to configure the configurable device; and (f) deasserting the processor reset signal, thereby the at least one configurable device is configured completely.