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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 13, 2021
Filed:
Oct. 30, 2020
Silicon Motion, Inc., Zhubei, TW;
Po-Wei Wu, New Taipei, TW;
SILICON MOTION, INC., Zhubei, TW;
Abstract
The invention introduces a non-transitory computer program product for activating a flash device when executed by a processing unit of the flash device to have program code to: determine whether the flash device is physically reset when the flash device enters a test mode perform an operation of a first phase for transmitting a very first message to a card-initialization host when the flash device is physically reset; and perform an operation of a second phase for searching a flash module for information referenced by In-System Programming (ISP) code, obtaining the ISP code from a designated address, and programming the ISP code into the flash module when the flash device is not physically reset.