Dynamic event recognition

Disclosed is an event recognition unit (400) for recognizing and/or monitoring events on an information bus (120). The event recognition unit (400) comprises a sequencer state machine (140) for determining sequential dependencies of events, and a comparator (110) coupled to the information bus (120) and to the sequencer state machine (140). The comparator (110) provides a signal to the sequencer state machine (140) when a pattern on the information bus (120) matches with a pattern term of the comparator (110). The event recognition unit (400) further comprises an output loop (410, 420) from the sequencer state machine (140) to the comparator (110) for dynamically setting the pattern term of the comparator (110).