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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 10, 2009
Filed:
Jul. 29, 2005
Satoru Sugimoto, Kasugai, JP;
Kenta Kato, Seto, JP;
Satoru Sugimoto, Kasugai, JP;
Kenta Kato, Seto, JP;
Spansion LLC, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
In inputting control information for setting access conditions in a system having a common data bus (), when a predetermined bit string making up an access condition setting command is inputted to predetermined terminals which are not data input/output terminals (S), the predetermined terminals are set as control information input terminals (S) and inputted control information is temporarily maintained in a non-volatile memory device (S). When inputting of control information is completed (S), the control information that has been temporarily maintained is stored in a non-volatile memory region all at once (S). During an access condition setting operation, the data input/output terminals are released (S) and the data bus () is made available to other banks or devices () so that data transfer efficiency of the system can be improved.