A semiconductor memory card that has a sufficient storage capacity when an
EC application writes data to a storage is provided. A usage area for the
EC application in an EPPROM 3 in a TRM 1 is expanded. The expansion is
such that a partition generated in a flash memory 2 outside the TRM 1 is
assigned to the EC application while a partition table is allocated in
the internal EEPROM 3. Because the partition table is in the TRM 1, only
a CPU 7 in the TRM 1 is able to access the generated partition table.
Secrecy of stored contents increases because the access to the expanded
area is limited to the CPU 7 in the TRM 1.