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D A T A S H E E T
Sector/Sector Block Protection and
Unprotection
(Note: For the following discussion, the term “sector”
applies to both sectors and sector blocks. A sector
block consists of two or more adjacent sectors that are
protected or unprotected at the same time (see Tables
8 and 9).
The hardware sector protection feature disables both
program and erase operations in any sector. The hard-
ware sector unprotection feature re-enables both pro-
gram and erase operations in previously protected
sectors. Sector protection/unprotection can be imple-
mented via two methods.
Table 8.
Top Boot Sector/Sector Block Addresses
for Protection/Unprotection
Table 9.
Addresses for Protection/Unprotection
Bottom Boot Sector/Sector Block
Sector protection/unprotection requires V
ID
on the RE-
SET# pin only, and can be implemented either in-sys-
tem or via programming equipment. Figure 2 shows
the algorithms and Figure 25 shows the timing dia-
gram. This method uses standard microprocessor bus
cycle timing. For sector unprotect, all unprotected sec-
tors must first be protected prior to the first sector un-
protect write cycle.
The sector unprotect algorithm unprotects all sectors
in parallel. All previously protected sectors must be in-
dividually re-protected. To change data in protected
sectors efficiently, the temporary sector unprotect
function is available. See “Temporary Sector Unpro-
tect”.
AMD offers the option of programming and protecting
sectors at its factory prior to shipping the device
through AMD’s ExpressFlash Service. Contact an
AMD representative for details.
Sector
A20–A12
Sector/
Sector Block Size
SA0
000000XXX
64 Kbytes
SA1-SA3
000001XXX,
000010XXX
000011XXX
192 (3x64) Kbytes
SA4-SA7
0001XXXXX
256 (4x64) Kbytes
SA8-SA11
0010XXXXX
256 (4x64) Kbytes
SA12-SA15
0011XXXXX
256 (4x64) Kbytes
SA16-SA19
0100XXXXX
256 (4x64) Kbytes
SA20-SA23
0101XXXXX
256 (4x64) Kbytes
SA24-SA27
0110XXXXX
256 (4x64) Kbytes
SA28-SA31
0111XXXXX
256 (4x64) Kbytes
SA32-SA35
1000XXXXX
256 (4x64) Kbytes
SA36-SA39
1001XXXXX
256 (4x64) Kbytes
SA40-SA43
1010XXXXX
256 (4x64) Kbytes
SA44-SA47
1011XXXXX
256 (4x64) Kbytes
SA48-SA51
1100XXXXX
256 (4x64) Kbytes
SA52-SA55
1101XXXXX
256 (4x64) Kbytes
SA56-SA59
1110XXXXX
256 (4x64) Kbytes
SA60-SA62
111100XXX,
111101XXX,
111110XXX
192 (3x64) Kbytes
SA63
111111000
8 Kbytes
SA64
111111001
8 Kbytes
SA65
111111010
8 Kbytes
SA66
111111011
8 Kbytes
SA67
111111100
8 Kbytes
SA68
111111101
8 Kbytes
SA69
111111110
8 Kbytes
SA70
111111111
8 Kbytes
Sector
A20–A12
Sector/Sector Block
Size
SA70
111111XXX
64 Kbytes
SA69-SA67
111110XXX,
111101XXX,
111100XXX
192 (3x64) Kbytes
SA66-SA63
1110XXXXX
256 (4x64) Kbytes
SA62-SA59
1101XXXXX
256 (4x64) Kbytes
SA58-SA55
1100XXXXX
256 (4x64) Kbytes
SA54-SA51
1011XXXXX
256 (4x64) Kbytes
SA50-SA47
1010XXXXX
256 (4x64) Kbytes
SA46-SA43
1001XXXXX
256 (4x64) Kbytes
SA42-SA39
1000XXXXX
256 (4x64) Kbytes
SA38-SA35
0111XXXXX
256 (4x64) Kbytes
SA34-SA31
0110XXXXX
256 (4x64) Kbytes
SA30-SA27
0101XXXXX
256 (4x64) Kbytes
SA26-SA23
0100XXXXX
256 (4x64) Kbytes
SA22–SA19
0011XXXXX
256 (4x64) Kbytes
SA18-SA15
0010XXXXX
256 (4x64) Kbytes
SA14-SA11
0001XXXXX
256 (4x64) Kbytes
SA10-SA8
000011XXX,
000010XXX,
000001XXX
192 (3x64) Kbytes
SA7
000000111
8 Kbytes
SA6
000000110
8 Kbytes
SA5
000000101
8 Kbytes
SA4
000000100
8 Kbytes
SA3
8 Kbytes
SA2
000000010
8 Kbytes
SA1
000000001
8 Kbytes
SA0
000000000
8 Kbytes