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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 15, 2011
Filed:
Sep. 14, 2009
Jonathan F. Lee, Dublin, CA (US);
Xiagang Zhu, Fremont, CA (US);
Jonathan F. Lee, Dublin, CA (US);
Xiagang Zhu, Fremont, CA (US);
Broadcom Corporation, Irvine, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods and systems for hardware controlling of an electrically erasable programmable read only memory (EEPROM) are described herein. Aspects of the invention may include generating a clock signal at a frequency suitable for EEPROM operation and resetting an EEPROM utilizing the generated clock signal and a hardware generated data signal without initiation by a central processing unit (CPU). The resetting may occur via a virtual CPU. The CPU and the virtual CPU may be integrated on a single chip. The signal generation and EEPROM resetting may occur via a virtual CPU integrated within a finite state machine. A frequency counter may be utilized to generate a clock signal from a clock source having a higher frequency than that required by the EEPROM.