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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 30, 2011
Filed:
Aug. 29, 2007
Koji Hashimoto, Tokyo, JP;
Katsuya Nakamoto, Tokyo, JP;
Shoso Tsunekazu, Tokyo, JP;
Shinsuke Suzuki, Tokyo, JP;
Koji Hashimoto, Tokyo, JP;
Katsuya Nakamoto, Tokyo, JP;
Shoso Tsunekazu, Tokyo, JP;
Shinsuke Suzuki, Tokyo, JP;
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The invention improves safety of an electronic controller using a nonvolatile memory MRAM able to easily perform reading and writing operations at high speed. Therefore, MRAM for writing a control program from an external tool has a correction code adding writing circuit, a decoding reading-out circuit, and error registers for writing an error generating address number thereto as error data. When the error generating address is designated and confirmation reading-out is performed and an error is generated as before, an overlapping abnormality judgment is made and abnormality notification is performed. A program memory area of MRAM is normally in a writing inhibition state. When the external tool is connected, the inhibition state is released. The error registers are arranged in a data memory area set to no writing inhibition object.