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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 27, 2004
Filed:
Dec. 20, 2001
Martin Hurich, Vaihingen, DE;
Robert Bosch GmbH, Stuttgart, GB;
Abstract
A memory including a plurality of memory cells combined into multiple physical sectors, in which the memory cells combined into one physical sector are capable of being erased only together, and in which the interface includes interrogation apparatus, arrangement, and structure that interrogates memory data encompassing sector data, and an allocation apparatus, arrangement, and structure that, incorporating the sector data, allocates multiple memory cells to each logical block, and in which allocation of the memory cells to the respective logical blocks is performed based on application-specific and/or memory-specific block data conveyed to the interface, which are represented by block information data that can be modified independently of data that constitute a program code. A method for providing variable configuration of a memory apparatus that includes at least one memory, and an apparatus for carrying out that method.