Patent ID: 7206919

Claim:
A system for enabling rapid partial configuration of reconfigurable devices comprising: configuration definition means for defining partial configuration requirements, containing at least the following: a starting address of configuration data for said partial reconfiguration, an information indicative of an end of said configuration data to be loaded in contiguous locations, desired configuration data corresponding to said contiguous locations, configuration loading means for loading the desired configuration data according to said partial configuration requirements without providing skip commands; wherein the configuration loading means comprises: an address counter means for storing said starting address of configuration data, an index counter means for storing a number of frames to be loaded, configuring means for loading configuration data according to said partial configuration data, said configuring means comprising means for incrementing said address counter means after loading each configuration data, means for decrementing said index counter means, and means for continued enabling of said means for incrementing and said means for decrementing until said index counter value reaches zero.