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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 22, 2008
Filed:
Apr. 07, 2005
Applicant:
Jacques Sonzogni, Fuveau, FR;
Inventor:
Jacques Sonzogni, Fuveau, FR;
Assignee:
STMicroelectronics S.A., Montrouge, FR;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/08 (2006.01); G06F 12/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method and a device for converting a virtual address of a program executed by a processor and provided by a program counter into a physical address in a program memory, the program having been stored in the memory in at least one segment of consecutive addresses. The method includes adding to each address provided by the program counter a number corresponding to the offset between the memory address and the virtual address provided by the program counter, and detecting a possible overflow from the current segment by comparing the obtained physical address with the start and end addresses of the considered segment.