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Abstract

A graphical user interface is used to display contents of a configuration memory and includes a hierarchical window illustrating directories and entries within the configuration memory including the relationships between the directories and entries and a data window for displaying data stored within the configuration memory and signalling errors corresponding to the data. The errors are determined by processing the data being displayed to determine a reference value for each entry within the data and to determine if any offset value, pointer value and count value included within any entry references a memory location outside of a boundary of the memory. The reference value specifies a number of times each entry is referenced. Errors are signalled within the data window by displaying entries corresponding to errors in a first color and entries which do not include errors in a second color. The system further includes a bus structure node circuit for coupling the system to other devices over a bus structure. Appropriate headings of directories and entries are displayed with the data in the data window. The bus structure is preferably an IEEE 1394-1995 serial bus.

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