Atomicity management in an eeprom

[0029]The same elements have been designated with the same reference numerals in the different drawings.

[0030]For clarity, only those steps and elements which are useful to the understanding of the embodiments which will be described have been shown and will be detailed. In particular, the destination of the information processed by the atomicity mechanism has not been detailed, the described embodiments being compatible with usual applications requiring an atomicity processing.

[0031]FIG. 1 very schematically shows, in the form of blocks, an embodiment of an electronic circuit 1 of the type to which the embodiments which will be described apply as an example.

[0032]Circuit 1 comprises:

[0033]a processing unit 11 (PU), for example, a state machine, a microprocessor, a programmable logic circuit, etc.;

[0034]one or a plurality of volatile storage areas 12 (RAM), for example of RAM or register type, to temporarily store information (instructions, addresses, data) during the processing;

[0035]