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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 13, 2012
Filed:
Jan. 27, 2005
Yoshito Katano, Tokyo, JP;
Tadashi Yoshida, Kanagawa, JP;
Kazuhiro Sako, Tokyo, JP;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A flash memory is made to store a same boot program in a plurality of blocks in it. When a flash memory controller receives an access command for accessing the storage region storing the boot program from a CPU (Step S), it outputs the read out data to the CPU only when the corresponding block is not faulty according to the determination (Steps S, S) made on the basis of the ECC contained in the data read out from the corresponding page and the determination (Step S) made on the basis of the block information also contained in the data read out from the corresponding page. If, on the other hand it is determined that the block is faulty, the flash memory controller reads out the boot program stored in the next block (Steps S, S) and determines once again that the block is faulty or not faulty.