Patent ID: 6996697

Claim:
A method of writing a group, having a certain number (N), of data bytes in a memory of a Low-Pin Count (LPC) memory device, the method comprising: carrying out a first protocol cycle for unprotecting a memory sector of the memory in which to write the group of data bytes; carrying out a second protocol cycle, after the first protocol cycle, for communicating a programming command to the memory device; carrying out a third protocol cycle, after the second protocol cycle, for transmitting to the memory device a memory address and the whole group of data bytes to be written; carrying out a writing phase of (8*N) data bits in the memory, the writing phase being carried out only once for the (N) data bytes and comprises writing a first byte of the group in a first address internally generated by resetting to zero the two least significant bits of the transmitted address, and writing the successive bytes respectively in memory addresses consecutive to the first internally generated address.