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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 29, 2020
Filed:
Nov. 16, 2018
Trustonic Limited, Cambridge, GB;
Trustonic Limited, Cambridge, GB;
Abstract
A method is provided for installing or updating software on an electronic devicecomprising processing circuitryand memory access circuitryto control access to at least one memory unitin response to physically-addressed memory access requests issued by the processing circuitry specifying physical addresses from a physical address space. The method comprises performing an address layout varying process comprising: obtaining at least one seed value; in dependence on the at least one seed value, selecting one of a plurality of software address layouts for code or data associated with the software, each software address layout corresponding to a different layout of the code or data in the physical address space; and triggering the electronic device to write the code or data associated with the software to locations of said at least one memory unit corresponding to the selected software address layout.