Electronic apparatus having non-volatile memory and method for controlling the same

摘要

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.

主权项

1. An electronic apparatus, comprising:
non-volatile memory having at least three sectors and being configured to be written to or read from in memory portions that are erased a sector at a time, each sector comprising a plurality of said memory portions and each sector being adapted to be erased independently of other of the at least three sectors; and control means operable to control erasing of the sectors and to store in a plurality of the sectors, other than a target sector, erasure information concerning an erasure procedure involving erasing the target sector, so that the erasure information in the plurality of sectors may be inspected to establish a recovery procedure following an interruption event, wherein the erasure information includes at least one of an identification of the target sector and an indication of a status of the erasure procedure.