A method for configuration of an Auxiliary Processing Unit (APU) of
multiprocessor system is presented. The multiprocessor system has at
least a Main Processing Unit (MPU) coupled to the APU via a communication
link. The APU has at least a first memory and a second memory. The method
includes a plurality of steps. At step the first memory is divided into
an application sector, a boot sector and a common sector. At another step
interrupts of the APU except interrupt/s that is/are being received via
the communication link are disabled. At a further step interrupt vector/s
pertaining to the communication link is/are mapped to the boot sector of
the first memory. At another step a configuration code is received
selectively into the application sector of the first memory and into the
second memory. At a further step the interrupt/s that is/are being
received via the communication link are disabled. At a further step the
common sector of the first memory is updated from the second memory.