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Hardware flash write protection
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The hardware flash write protection driver (``fprotect``) can be used to protect flash areas from writing.
The driver uses a hardware peripheral (BPROT, ACL, or SPU, depending on the chip model) to protect the area.
The protection is irreversible until a reset occurs.

The following example shows how to protect ``PM_B0_SIZE`` bytes of the flash area starting from ``PM_B0_ADDRESS``:

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   int err = fprotect_area(PM_B0_ADDRESS, PM_B0_SIZE);


API documentation
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| Header file: :file:`include/fprotect.h`
| Source files: :file:`lib/fprotect/`

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