COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONFIGURING PROGRAMMABLE HARDWARE

摘要

A communication system which has a ring-shaped configuration and has at least two users. The users are connected to one another in series, one user being configured as the master and the remaining users being configured as slaves. The master is configured to transmit a data packet to one or multiple slaves. Each slave has a shift register. At least one user in the communication system includes a programmable hardware module, and at least one user in the communication system includes a memory arrangement. The programmable hardware module is configured so that it may be configured by reading out data of the memory arrangement.