Data Sheet
The Secured Silicon Sector protection must be used with caution since, once protected, there is no procedure
available for unprotecting the Secured Silicon Sector area, and none of the bits in the Secured Silicon Sector
memory space can be modified in any way.
Figure 8.1 Secured Silicon Sector Protect Verify
START
RESET# = VID
Wait 1 ms
Write 60h to
any address
Write 40h to SecSi
Sector address
with A0=0, A1=1,
A2=0, A3=1, A4=1,
A5=0, A6=0, A7=0
Read from SecSi
Sector address
with A0=0, A1=1,
A2=0, A3=1, A4=1,
A5=0, A6=0, A7=0
If data = 00h,
SecSi Sector is
unprotected.
If data = 01h,
SecSi Sector is
protected.
Remove VID
from RESET#
Write reset
command
SecSi Sector
Protect Verify
complete
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