Patent ID: 11960630
Assignee: MICRON TECHNOLOGY, INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 7:
8. A system comprising:
a host device; and
an apparatus coupled to the host device, wherein the apparatus includes a memory device coupled to a controller and wherein the controller is configured to:
grant access to a register on the apparatus by determining a command sent from the host device to the apparatus is valid by calculating an answer using a seed from the command in a formula common to the host device and the controller and verifying the calculated answer matches an answer from the command, wherein the command is received by a control register and the register is not visible to the host; and
execute a number of commands sent from the host device to the apparatus in response to access to the register being granted, wherein the number of commands are executed by writing data to a data register to boot the apparatus and to initialize hardware on the apparatus.