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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 07, 2003
Filed:
Aug. 14, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Gary Phillips, San Jose, CA (US);
Eugene Feng, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
Silicon Storage Technology, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/300 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/300 ;
Abstract
A microcontroller system includes a security lock circuit to regulate access requests to contents of locations of a program memory. The regulation is selective, based on an operating mode of the security lock circuit, and also based on the source of the access request and the location of the program memory for which the access request is intended. Among other advantages, one major advantage provided by the security lock circuit is that concurrent programming (i.e., programming of one area of memory using instructions executing from another area of memory) can be initiated under predetermined secure conditions.