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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 18, 2016
Filed:
Jul. 26, 2011
Richard Landenbach, Erzhausen, DE;
Marc Willam, Frankfurt am Main, DE;
Hartmut Sturm, Germering, DE;
Kai Dieffenbach, Egelsbach, DE;
Richard Landenbach, Erzhausen, DE;
Marc Willam, Frankfurt am Main, DE;
Hartmut Sturm, Germering, DE;
Kai Dieffenbach, Egelsbach, DE;
FUJITSU SEMICONDUCTOR EUROPE GMBH, Langen, DE;
Abstract
Electronic apparatus, comprising: non-volatile memory configured to be written to or read from in memory portions which are erased a sector at a time, each said sector comprising a plurality of said portions, and the memory having at least three said sectors each of which is adapted to be erased independently of the others; and control means operable to control erasing of the sectors, wherein: the control means is configured to store in a plurality of the sectors other than a target said sector erasure information concerning an erasure procedure, the erasure procedure involving erasing the target sector, so that such information in the sectors may be inspected to establish a suitable recovery procedure following an interruption event.