Patent ID: 7206989

Claim:
A method comprising: operating an integrated circuit in a selected mode of operation, the integrated circuit comprising first circuitry and second circuitry, the first circuitry being capable of performing at least one operation, the at least one operation comprising, at least in part, at least one of generating check data based at least in part upon other data, regenerating the other data based at least in part upon the check data, and determining one or more locations of at least one of the check data and the other data in storage, the second circuitry being capable of controlling, at least in part, at least one interface to at least one of transmit from and receive at the integrated circuit at least one of the check data and the other data, and depending at least in part upon the selected mode of operation, the first circuitry being one of enabled to perform and disabled from performing the at least one operation, the at least one interface being capable of communicating in accordance with a plurality of different protocols, the second circuitry being capable of issuing a command to the at least one interface to communicate in accordance with at least one of the plurality of different protocols that corresponds to the selected mode of operation of the integrated circuit.