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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 30, 2023
Filed:
Nov. 01, 2020
Silicon Motion, Inc., Hsinchu County, TW;
Kuan-Yu Ke, Hsinchu County, TW;
Silicon Motion, Inc., Hsinchu County, TW;
Abstract
A method and apparatus for performing resuming management are provided. The method includes: utilizing a boot loader to load a group of In-System Programming (ISP) codes; storing information to be retained, including a resume ISP loader, into a retention region of a RAM, for being retained during sleeping; determining whether to start sleeping, and generating a determining result; in response to the determining result, controlling the memory device to start sleeping; after starting sleeping, determining whether a wake-up event occurs; after the wake-up event occurs, executing a first ISP code within the group of ISP codes to start performing a first operation; and executing the resume ISP loader to load other ISP codes within the group of ISP codes.