PSD834F2V
Specific Features
Flash Memory Sector Protect. Each primary
and secondary Flash memory sector can be sepa-
rately protected against Program and Erase cy-
cles. Sector Protection provides additional data
security because it disables all Program or Erase
cycles. This mode can be activated through the
JTAG Port or a Device Programmer.
Sector protection can be selected for each sector
using the PSDsoft Express Configuration pro-
gram. This automatically protects selected sectors
when the device is programmed through the JTAG
Port or a Device Programmer. Flash memory sec-
tors can be unprotected to allow updating of their
contents using the JTAG Port or a Device Pro-
grammer. The MCU can read (but cannot change)
the sector protection bits.
Any attempt to program or erase a protected Flash
memory sector is ignored by the device. The Verify
operation results in a read of the protected data.
This allows a guarantee of the retention of the Pro-
tection status.
The sector protection status can be read by the
MCU through the Flash memory protection and
PSD/EE protection registers (in the CSIOP block).
See Table 9 and Table 10.
Table 9. Sector Protection/Security Bit Definition – Flash Protection Register
Bit 7
Bit 6
Bit 5
Bit 4
Bit 3
Bit 2
Bit 1
Sec7_Prot Sec6_Prot Sec5_Prot Sec4_Prot Sec3_Prot Sec2_Prot Sec1_Prot
Note: 1. Bit Definitions:
Sec<i>_Prot 1 = Primary Flash memory or secondary Flash memory Sector <i> is write protected.
Sec<i>_Prot 0 = Primary Flash memory or secondary Flash memory Sector <i> is not write protected.
Bit 0
Sec0_Prot
Table 10. Sector Protection/Security Bit Definition – PSD/EE Protection Register
Bit 7
Bit 6
Bit 5
Bit 4
Bit 3
Bit 2
Bit 1
Security_Bit not used
not used
not used
Sec3_Prot Sec2_Prot Sec1_Prot
Note: 1. Bit Definitions:
Sec<i>_Prot 1 = Secondary Flash memory Sector <i> is write protected.
Sec<i>_Prot 0 = Secondary Flash memory Sector <i> is not write protected.
Security_Bit 0 = Security Bit in device has not been set.
1 = Security Bit in device has been set.
Bit 0
Sec0_Prot
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