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M35B32

Operating features

4.4

Protection modes

The environments where non-volatile memory devices are used can be very noisy. No SPI

device can operate correctly in the presence of excessive noise. To help combat this, the

M35B32 features the following data protection mechanisms:

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Power on reset can provide protection against inadvertent changes while the power

supply is outside the operating specification.

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Program, Erase and Write instructions are checked that they consist of a number of

clock pulses that is a multiple of eight, before they are accepted for execution.

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All instructions that modify data must be preceded by a Write Enable (WREN)

instruction to set the WEL bit (in the status register). This bit is returned to its reset state

by the following events:

–Power-up

–

Reset (RESET) driven low

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Write Disable (WRDI) instruction completion

–

Page Write (PW) instruction completion

–

Page Program (PP) instruction completion

–

Page Erase (PE) instruction completion

–

Sector Erase (SE) instruction completion

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The Hardware Protected mode is entered when Write Protect (W) is driven low,

causing the Event sector to become read-only. When Write Protect (W) is driven high,

the 4 Kbytes of EEPROM memory can be accessed in Read and Write mode.

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The Reset (RESET) signal can be driven low to protect the contents of the memory

during any critical time, not just during Power-up and Power-down. When driven active

(low), the RESET pin does not stop an on going Program or Write cycle.

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