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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 26, 2021
Filed:
Aug. 14, 2019
Silicon Motion Inc., Hsinchu County, TW;
Shang-Ta Yang, Taoyuan, TW;
Silicon Motion, Inc., Hsinchu County, TW;
Abstract
A method for using an electronic device to activate amass production software tool to initialize a memory device including a flash memory controller and a flash memory includes: using the mass production software tool to retrieve an encrypted configuration file included by the mass production software tool; decrypting the encrypted configuration file to generate a temporarily decrypted configuration file; comparing unique information of the electronic device with unique information recorded in the temporarily decrypted configuration file to determine whether the electronic device is valid/authorized; and performing a flash memory initialization operation upon the flash memory when the electronic device is valid/authorized.