Data restoration in electronic device

• US 9,471,487 B2
• Filed: 12/12/2014
• Issued: 10/18/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 12/20/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Onkyo Technology Kabushiki Kaisha
• Original Assignee: ONKYO Corporation (Onkyo Home Entertainment Corp.)
• Inventors: Ito, Kazunari
• Primary Examiner(s): Thai, Tuan
• Assistant Examiner(s): Waddy, Jr., Edward
• Application Number:
  US14/568,379
• Publication Number:
  US 20150177992A1
• Time in Patent Office: 676 Days
• Field of Search: 711/162, 711/E12.019, 711/114, 711/113, 711/103, 711/118, 711/119, 711/E12.001, 711/E12.04, 711/E12.103, 711/135, 711/142, 711/202, 711/E12.008, 711/100, 711/104, 711/105, 711/143, 714/E11.12, 714/E11.124, 714/E11.136, 714/E11.138, 714/38.12
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/00 Error detection; Error correction; Monitoring error detection, correction or monitoring in information storage based on relative movement between record carrier and transducer G11B20/18; monitoring, i.e. supervising the progress of recording or reproducing G11B27/36; in static stores G11C29/00
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/14 Error detection or correction of the data by redundancy in operation G06F11/16 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/1441 Resetting or repowering
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 12/0246 in block erasable memory, e.g. flash memory
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2206/1014 One time programmable [OTP] memory, e.g. PROM, WORM
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2212/1032 Reliability improvement, data loss prevention, degraded operation etc

Abstract

Restoration data is enabled to be written into a nonvolatile memory according to a simple process without using large capacity of a volatile memory.

An SRAM writing section sets an updating request flag in a non-delay updating request flag region corresponding to a non-delay region where the restoration data is written. When the updating request flag is set in the non-delay updating request flag region, an EEPROM writing section writes the restoration data stored in the non-delay region corresponding to the non-delay updating request flag region into an EEPROM.

Claims

1. An electronic device comprising:

a nonvolatile memory;

a volatile memory having a first region where data that does not have to be restored is stored, a second region where restoration data that should be stored even when power supply to a self device is shut off is stored, a first flag region where a first flag is set correspondingly to the second region, a third region where the restoration data to be delayed and written into the nonvolatile memory is stored, a second flag region where a second flag is set correspondingly to the third region, and a timer region for counting a time;

a processor that includes;

a first writing section that writes data including the restoration data into the volatile memory; and

a second writing section that writes the restoration data stored in the second region into the nonvolatile memory, wherein

the first writing section sets the first flag in the first flag region corresponding to the second region where the restoration data is written,

when the first flag is set in the first flag region, the second writing section writes the restoration data stored in the second region corresponding to the first flag region into the nonvolatile memory, and

the first writing section sets the second flag in the second flag region corresponding to the third region where the restoration data is written and starts time counting in the timer region,

when the time counting in the timer region continues for over a predetermined time after the second flag is set in the second flag region, the second writing section writes the restoration data stored in the third region corresponding to the second flag region into the nonvolatile memory.

2. An electronic device comprising:

a nonvolatile memory;

a volatile memory having a first region where data that does not have to be restored is stored, a second region where restoration data that should be stored even when power supply to a self device is shut off is stored, a first flag region where a first flag is set correspondingly to the second region, a third region where the restoration data to be delayed and written into the nonvolatile memory is stored, a second flag region where a second flag is set correspondingly to the third region, a third flag region where a third flag for prohibiting writing of the restoration data into the nonvolatile memory is set, and a timer region for counting a time;

a processor that includes;

a first writing section that writes data including the restoration data into the volatile memory; and

a second writing section that writes the restoration data stored in the second region into the nonvolatile memory, wherein

the first writing section sets the first flag in the first flag region corresponding to the second region where the restoration data is written,

when the first flag is set in the first flag region, the second writing section writes the restoration data stored in the second region corresponding to the first flag region into the nonvolatile memory, and

the first writing section

sets the second flag in the second flag region corresponding to the third region where the restoration data is written, sets the third flag in the third flag region, and starts time counting in the timer region,

when time counting in the timer region continues for over a predetermined time, deletes the third flag in the third flag region,

when the second flag is set in the second flag region and the third flag is deleted in the third flag region, the second writing section writes the restoration data stored in the third region corresponding to the second flag region into the nonvolatile memory.

3. The electronic device according to claim 2, wherein the first writing section

determines a region where the data is written based on an address of the volatile memory,

when the determination is made that the restoration data is written into the second region, sets the first flag in the first flag region corresponding to the second region where the restoration data is written,

when the determination is made that the restoration data is written into the third region, sets the second flag in the second flag region corresponding to the third region where the restoration data is written, sets the third flag in the third flag region, and starts time counting in the timer region.