Patent ID: 7930535

Claim:
A method for configuring a configurable device, the method comprising: communicating, via a configuration means, with a first register; receiving, at the configuration means, a data structure; providing, at the configuration means, a timer signal at an end of a predetermined interval of time; testing, via the configuration means, a content of the first register upon receiving the timer signal, based at least in part on the data structure; and storing, by the configuration means, data within a second register in accordance with the result of the test, wherein the data is at least one of (i) a control data and (ii) a configuration type data, and wherein the data structure includes (i) an opcode field and (ii) a mask field, wherein the opcode field contains a type of test to perform, and wherein the mask field contains at least one register bit of the first register on which to perform the test.