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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 27, 2022
Filed:
May. 30, 2019
Applicant:
Nuvoton Technology Corporation, Hsinchu Science Park, TW;
Inventors:
Assignee:
NUVOTON TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION, Hsinchu Science Park, TW;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/60 (2013.01); G06F 21/75 (2013.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/60 (2013.01); G06F 3/0622 (2013.01); G06F 3/0631 (2013.01); G06F 3/0659 (2013.01); G06F 3/0679 (2013.01); G06F 21/755 (2017.08);
Abstract
A data-processing device is provided. The data-processing device includes: a flash memory, a computation unit, and a flash-memory controller. The flash-memory controller is electrically connected to the computation unit, and configured to control access to the flash memory. The flash-memory controller allocates a first execute-only memory (XOM) setting and a second XOM setting in a first memory bank and a second memory bank of the flash memory, respectively. The flash-memory controller allocates one or more XOM spaces in the flash memory according to the first XOM setting or the second XOM setting.