NUMERICAL CONTROL SYSTEMS FOR PROGRAMMING

Brand	Owner	Address	Description
FANUC	FANUC CORPORATION	3580, Shibokusa Aza-Komanba, Oshino-mura Minamitsuru-gun Yamanashi 401-0597 Japan	NUMERICAL CONTROL SYSTEMS FOR PROGRAMMING AND AUTOMATICALLY CONTROLLING MACHINE TOOLS;
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Technical Examples

The present invention provides a method and apparatus for providing fault-tolerance for in-circuit programming systems. The invention operates by storing a minimal set of code to initialize the in-circuit programming process in a protected memory so that if the in-circuit programming process fails, the in-circuit programming process can be restarted from the protected memory. This type of fault-tolerance is especially important in systems which allow the code which accomplishes the in-circuit programming to be modified by the in-circuit programming process. One embodiment of the present invention provides a multiplexer to selectively switch between a normal boot code sequence and a protected boot code sequence, as well as a watchdog timer to monitor the in-circuit programming process to determine whether the in-circuit programming process is not progressing properly.