Patent 7599299 was granted and assigned to Xilinx on October, 2009 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Method and apparatus for a dynamically reconfigurable system monitor (20) are described. A system monitor (20) has registers (206) accessible via a reconfiguration port (201). At least one of the registers may be dynamically reconfigured via the reconfiguration port (201) to select a channel to be monitored or to store an alarm value to be used in monitoring by the system monitor (20). Additionally, the system monitor (20) may be embedded in a columnar block architecture.