Methods and apparatus for reconfiguring programmable devices

摘要

There is disclosed a method for reconfiguring one or more programmable devices comprising the steps of: providing a datastream comprising one or more identification portions; loading data from the datastream into said one or more programmable devices thereby labelling the one or more programmable devices by loading one or more identification portions into each programmable device; presenting a reconfiguring datastream to the one or more programmable devices, the reconfiguring datastream comprising one or more data sections having an associated identification portion; and loading a data section into a programmable device if the identification portion associated with the data section matches an identification portion previously loaded in order to label the programmable device.