BigPatents India

A method of manufacturing & portable computing device, involves the stops of(1) maintaining a table compiling stimulus/response data for possible hardware component, that may be interfaced In the computing device; (2) performing one manufacturing step in the manufacture of the portable computing device by interfacing one of the possible hardware components with one other component oft, computing device; and (3) performing one oilier manufacturing stop in the manufacture by: (i) applying a stimulus to the interfaced hardware component, and reading a response from the interfaced hardware component in response to the applied stimulus; (ii) identifying the interfaced hardware component from a correlation oldie response with the stimulus/response data; and (iii) saving the identification as configuration data In the computing device. (FIG.1)