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Patent No.:

US 9606913 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Mar. 28, 2017

Filed:

Mar. 28, 2014

Electronic circuit for and method of executing an application program stored in a one-time-programmable (otp) memory in a system on chip (soc)

Applicant:

Dialog Semiconductor B.v., 's-Hertogenbosch, NL;

Inventors:

Nikolaos Moschopoulos, Athens, GR;

Jakobus Johannes Verhallen, Oss, NL;

Konstantinos Ninos, Paleo Faliro, GR;

Tobias Mueller, Unterensingen, DE;

Dimitrios Papadopoulos, Patras, GR;

Assignee:

Dialog Semiconductor B.V., 's-Hertogenbosch, NL;

Attorneys:

Saile Ackerman LLC

Stephen B. Ackerman

Primary Examiner:

Charles Rones

Assistant Examiner:

Hewy Li

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/02 (2006.01); G06F 9/44 (2006.01); G06F 1/24 (2006.01); G11C 17/16 (2006.01); G06F 12/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/0246 (2013.01); G06F 9/4403 (2013.01); G06F 9/4418 (2013.01); G06F 1/24 (2013.01); G06F 2212/2142 (2013.01); G11C 17/16 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method and apparatus for executing an application program stored in an one-time-programmable, OTP, memory in a system on chip (SoC) is described. The SoC has RAM, a CPU and an OTP controller. The OTP memory stores an application program. The method includes, by the processor unit at power-up, instructing the OTP controller to copy the application program from the OTP memory to RAM, executing the application program from RAM, and setting the system on chip (SoC) in sleep mode. By the OTP controller after a wake-up, copying the application program from the OTP memory to the RAM and after the copying, waking up the CPU and transferring control back to the CPU. By the CPU after being woken up by the OTP controller, executing the application program from RAM.

Find Patent Forward Citations

Moschopoulos, Nikolaos. (2017). Electronic circuit for and method of executing an application program stored in a one-time-programmable (otp) memory in a system on chip (soc) (U.S. Patent No. 9606913). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/9606913

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