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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 12, 2016
Filed:
Oct. 10, 2014
Applicants:
Michael Besemer, Esslingen, DE;
Thomas Munz, Esslingen, DE;
Steffen Leipold, Goeppingen, DE;
Inventors:
Assignee:
ROBER BOSCH GMBH, Stuttgart, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/00 (2006.01); G06F 12/02 (2006.01); G06F 12/08 (2016.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/0246 (2013.01); G06F 12/0833 (2013.01); G06F 2212/222 (2013.01); G06F 2212/7209 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method for reading a data block of a nonvolatile memory of a processing unit, the nonvolatile memory being subdivided into sectors; the sectors being written to consecutively in each case from a sector beginning to a sector end with different versions of different data blocks; a current version of a data block being written to a current position in a current sector; in a cache memory, for each data block, an entry being present that characterizes the respective data block.