Patent ID: 11907581
Assignee: INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AG
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A method for writing information into a data storage device comprising a plurality of storage elements, each storage element of the plurality of storage elements configured for storing a piece of information, wherein the plurality of storage elements are accessible as a plurality of word sets and as a plurality of slice sets, each word set of the plurality of word sets comprising a set of storage elements, and each slice set of the plurality of slice sets comprising a set of storage elements, and wherein each storage element of the plurality of storage elements is a part of a word set of the plurality of word sets and a part of a slice set of the plurality of slice sets, the method comprising:
obtaining word information and slice information;
executing a write operation to parallelly write the word information into a first word set of the plurality of word sets and the slice information into a first slice set of the plurality of slice sets, wherein the first word set and the first slice set comprise a common storage element defined by an overlap of the first word set and the first slice set in a layout of the plurality of storage elements; and
one of:
parallelly writing a secret information to the first word set and a dummy information to the first slice set associated with the first word set; or
parallelly writing a dummy information to the first word set and a secret information to the first slice set associated with the first word set.