US Patent 7353374 Integrated circuit with supervisory control circuit

An integrated circuit (IC) with a supervisory control circuit is disclosed. In various embodiments, the IC includes a plurality of configurable logic resources and interconnection circuitry. A first interface circuit is coupled to a set of interface ports that are coupled to the interconnection circuitry, and a second interface circuit is coupled to the device management resources. A control store is configured with control codes for accessing the device management resources. Responsive to a command received via the first interface circuit, a control circuit is configured to fetch selected control codes from the control store, execute the control codes, and access a selected device management resource via the second interface circuit.