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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 30, 1999
Filed:
Sep. 30, 1996
Albert Rudy Nelson, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Tom Rampone, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A flexible non-volatile memory controller that provides external boot block protection and provides support for non-volatile memory devices having different sizes is disclosed. The flexible non-volatile memory controller includes a boot block protection unit that provides external boot block protection for a non-volatile memory device without internal boot block protection. The boot block protection unit prevents external devices from writing to a prespecified block of memory in the non-volatile memory device in a normal mode. The flexible non-volatile memory controller also includes a memory expansion unit that is adapted to control non-volatile memory devices having different sizes.