Patent 7761654 was granted and assigned to Broadcom (company) on July, 2010 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
One or more methods and/or systems of utilizing a memory external to an integrated circuit chip are presented. In one embodiment, the system comprises an Integrated circuit containing a logic circuitry, a one time programmable memory, a control processor, and a data interface. In one embodiment, a method of storing data into a memory comprises programming one or more bits of a one time programmable memory, generating an Identifier from the integrated circuit chip, and using the identifier to store data within the memory.