发明名称 Methods and apparatus for updating a nonvolatile memory
摘要 Code is written to a selected portion of a nonvolatile memory having a first portion associated with a first range of addresses and a second portion associated with a second range of addresses, wherein the selected portion is the second portion. Toggling a block selector swaps addresses of the first and second portions, wherein the first range of addresses reference the second portion of nonvolatile memory and the second range of addresses reference the first portion of nonvolatile memory. An apparatus includes a processor that initiates a boot sequence at a pre-determined address. An address decoder accesses a one of a first and a second block of nonvolatile memory in response to the pre-determined address in accordance with a value of the block selector. A method using a group selector includes the step of receiving an address from a processor. The address is decoded to access one of a first and a second group of blocks of nonvolatile memory in accordance with a value of the group selector. An apparatus includes an address decoder coupled to the group selector and a nonvolatile memory having a plurality of blocks. The address decoder associates a first range of addresses with a first group and a second range of addresses with the second group if the group selector has a first value. The address decoder associates the first range of with the second group and the second range with the first group if the group selector has a second value.
申请公布号 AU4868399(A) 申请公布日期 2000.02.21
申请号 AU19990048683 申请日期 1999.07.09
申请人 INTEL CORPORATION 发明人 ROBERT N. HASBUN
分类号 G06F9/24;G06F9/445;G06F12/02 主分类号 G06F9/24
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