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02/26/08 16:12
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#151487 - What if you don't bond out nPSEN?
Responding to: ???'s previous message
With 64KB of code space, there's really no way to determine, reliably, when the MCU is accessing code space, is there?

If you have no external memory, you have no need for that signal, and, with 64KB of on-chip FLASH, well, without it, it's pretty hard to figure out when various things are happening. Perhaps all it needs is to be able to disconnect the nPSEN signal from the pin, electronically, once the internal FLASH is programmed.

Mightn't that be enough?

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TopicAuthorDate
Obtaining maximum code security            01/01/70 00:00      
   Worth it ?            01/01/70 00:00      
      Protection with Patents            01/01/70 00:00      
   the value... again...            01/01/70 00:00      
      "OCR"ing a Design            01/01/70 00:00      
   It's a brave man            01/01/70 00:00      
      Specialist secure micros            01/01/70 00:00      
         this is a different form of security            01/01/70 00:00      
         Huge NREs?            01/01/70 00:00      
            What if you don't bond out nPSEN?            01/01/70 00:00      
               why not drop !EA            01/01/70 00:00      
                  Don't Drop !EA!            01/01/70 00:00      
                     Couldn\'t you do that in another way            01/01/70 00:00      
                        Eliminating /EA            01/01/70 00:00      
               The value of PSEN            01/01/70 00:00      
            not only...            01/01/70 00:00      
               Brute-force copying            01/01/70 00:00      
                  well, maybe...            01/01/70 00:00      
            Erase on tamper detect            01/01/70 00:00      
   Make the chip hard to access            01/01/70 00:00      
      It's quite impractical...            01/01/70 00:00      
   few thousand dollars ... Not at all            01/01/70 00:00      

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