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US 2017/0365359 A1Published application
Methods for operating a data storage device and data storage device utilizing the same
AssigneeSilicon Motion, Inc.
InventorWen-Chun JIAN
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Abstract
A data storage device includes a flash memory and a controller. The controller is coupled to the flash memory and includes a ROM which stores a boot code. In an initialization procedure of the data storage device, the controller does not access the flash memory and receives a debug code from an external device, and executes the boot code and the debug code to complete the initialization procedure.
Claims10
A data storage device, comprising:
- a flash memory;
- and
- a controller, coupled to the flash memory and comprising a read only memory (ROM), wherein a boot code is stored in the ROM, and
- wherein in an initialization procedure of the data storage device, the controller does not access the flash memory and loads a debug code from an external device instead, and the controller executes the boot code and the debug code to complete the initialization procedure.
1 more element
A method for operating a data storage device, wherein the data storage device comprises a flash memory and a controller, comprising:
- forbidding the controller to access the flash memory in an initialization procedure of the data storage device;
- loading a debug code from an external device by the controller;
- and
- executing a boot code and the debug code by the controller to complete the initialization procedure.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.