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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 15, 2022
Filed:
Aug. 05, 2019
Applicant:
Renesas Electronics America Inc., Milpitas, CA (US);
Inventor:
Jon Matthew Brabender, Cary, NC (US);
Assignee:
RENESAS ELECTRONICS AMERICA INC., Milpitas, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/32 (2018.01); G06F 12/10 (2016.01); G06F 9/445 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/10 (2013.01); G06F 9/32 (2013.01); G06F 9/445 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for microcontroller (MCU) memory relocation. The MCU includes a central processing unit (CPU) and memory, but lacks a memory management unit (MMU). In one embodiment of the method, a first program is selected for execution by the CPU. The first program is one of a plurality of programs stored in the memory of the MCU. Each of the programs includes position dependent instructions. The programs are compiled from source code written in position dependent code.