Fujitsu Corporation

Renri Nakano

Hisamitsu Tanihira

Kazuo Nagahori

Data for designating a status mode is written beforehand in a data portion of a data-type microinstruction. When power is introduced, first, the data type microinstruction is read. Next, a status-mode setting circuit generates an enable signal. The enable signal is only generated at the initial reading of the data-type microinstruction. The status-mode designating data written in the data portion of the microinstruction is stored in a status-mode memory in response to the enable signal. A central processing unit reads the status-mode designating data that has been stored in the status-mode memory and executes processing conforming to the status mode read.

Method and apparatus for setting the status mode of a central processing

A data shifting circuit comprises a barrel shifter for shifting by a plurality of bits data having a width twice that of a certain data width, and a data controller for supplying the same data having the certain data width commonly to the most significant bits and the least significant bits of the barrel shifter means.

Data shifting circuit capable of an original data width rotation and a

In a system for testing an instruction queue circuit connected to an external memory via a bus controller provided in a processor having a microprogram control unit, an operation unit connected to the microprogram control unit and connected, via an internal bus, to the instruction queue circuit, the instruction queue circuit-including a plurality of queue buffers, a writing unit writes internal bus information transferred via the internal bus into the instruction queue circuit in response to a first instruction generated by the microprogram control unit. The internal bus information is contained in the first instruction. A reading unit reads the internal bus information from the instruction queue circuit in response to a second instruction generated by the microprogram control unit. A gate circuit outputs the internal bus information to the internal bus in response to a third instruction generated by the microprogram control circuit. The internal bus information is used to test the instruction queue circuit.

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Kawasaki, Japan

Renri Nakano