Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Panasonic Corporation

Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Tatsuya Adachi

Seiji Nakamura

Kazuya Iwata

Takuji Maeda

Masahiro Nakanishi

Isao Kato

Tadashi Ono

Naoki Ejima

Tetsushi Kasahara

Masataka Nikaido

Toshiyuki Honda

Takafumi Ueno

Kiyotaka Nagai

Yasushi Nakajima

Masayuki Toyama

Kinji Kawamoto

Tetsuhiko Kaneaki

Hirofumi Nakagaki

Yoshihisa Inagaki

Shuhei Sasakura

Kazuhiro Murase

Sakurako Matsuda

In a removable system formed from a host device and a slave device detachable from the host device, when the slave device sequentially detects a signal of a first voltage level and a signal of a second voltage level from the connected host device, the signal of the first voltage level is transmitted by a second signal line. Subsequently, when the host device detects that the second signal line is at the first voltage level, the host device interrupts drive of a first signal line, and executes initialization.

Host device, slave device, and removable system

An information recording device comprises a memory component configured to hold data, a first file system controller configured to manage data held in the memory component on the basis of a first file name formed by a first code, and a wireless component configured to send and receive wireless signals. The first file system controller receives, from an access device connected to the information recording device, the first file name and a second file name that corresponds to the first file name and is formed by a second code that is different from the first code, identifies specific data having the first file name out of the data held in the memory component, and sends the second file name and the specific data to another information recording device connected via the wireless component.

Information recording device, information recording system, and information communication method

An access deviceincludes an access speed information partfor informing an access speed required for data recording by the access deviceto a nonvolatile memory deviceThe nonvolatile memory device includes an access condition determination partfor determining an access condition required for meeting the informed access speed and an access area determination unitfor determining an access area according to the determined access condition. The access deviceinforms the required access speed to the nonvolatile memory devicein advance so that the access condition determination partand the access area determination partin the nonvolatile memory devicerealize data recording which meets the access speed informed in advance upon the data recording. Thus, it is possible to access all the nonvolatile memory devices at a desired speed regardless of difference in characteristics of the recording speed of each of the nonvolatile memory devices.

Nonvolatile memory device, access device, and nonvolatile memory system

Without corresponding to different address spaces between an access device and a nonvolatile memory device, the access device designates a file ID to manage a data storing state only in a physical address space in the nonvolatile memory device. The access device sends the nonvolatile memory device a transfer rate through a transfer rate transmitting unit. A filling-up rate calculating unit calculates a filling-up rate of a physical block corresponding to an assurance speed required by the access device. A remaining amount corresponding to the transfer rate is sought by using the calculated filling-up rate and is transmitted to a remaining amount receiving unit of the access device.

Memory controller, nonvolatile memory device, access device, and nonvolatile memory system

When a write command is issued, new data is written into a free physical block of a nonvolatile memory (). Here, if data of the same logical block has been written already, the block is erased and a recording state is judged by a recording state judgment unit (). A physical block is swapped according to the number of write processes performed. Thus, it is possible to effectively perform a swap without increasing the number of write processes in a particular area, thereby increasing the lifetime of a nonvolatile storage module.

Memory controller, nonvolatile storage module, access module and nonvolatile storage system

When an access device accesses a nonvolatile memory device, the nonvolatile memory device or the access device detects or calculates a temperature T of the nonvolatile memory device. A temperature-adaptive control part of the nonvolatile memory device controls an access rate to a nonvolatile memory on the basis of the temperature T. Accordingly, the control part controls the rate so that the temperature T of the nonvolatile memory devices cannot exceed a limit temperature Trisk. In this manner, a nonvolatile memory system can eliminate a risk of a burn when ejecting the semiconductor memory device and can read and write data at a high speed.

Nonvolatile memory device, nonvolatile memory system, and access device having a variable read and write access rate

The access devicedesignates a file ID without relating different address spaces of an access deviceand a nonvolatile memory devicewith each other and manages a data storing state only in a physical address space in the nonvolatile memory device. The access devicesends a transfer rate to the nonvolatile memory deviceby using a transfer rate sending part. A filling rate calculation partcalculates a filling rate of physical block corresponding to a guaranteed speed required by the access device. A remaining capacity corresponding to the transfer rate is obtained by using the calculated filling rate and is sent to a remaining capacity receiving partof the access device

A file to be read or written is designated and accessed from an access device side to a nonvolatile memory device. In an initialization after start-up of the power source, an empty capacity detector detects empty capacity parameters of a nonvolatile memory with dividing the memory into a plurality of regions. An empty capacity parameter notification part notifies the access device of the empty capacity parameters in a stepwise fashion whenever the empty capacity detector detects an empty capacity. With this, at the time when the empty capacity becomes not less than a capacity required to write file data, the data can be written to the nonvolatile memory without waiting for completion of the initialization, resulting in improvement of a response in the recording.

An electronic apparatus that transmits error information about setting of a block size to a host device includes an interface section that transmits and receives a command, a response and data to and from the host device. When the data is a predetermined length or more, the interface section executes multi-block transmission. Moreover, the electronic apparatus includes a data buffer, and a storage section that stores information about a block size. When the interface section receives a block size setting command transmitted from the host device and the block size is larger than a capacity of the data buffer, it transmits a response including error information about incapability of accepting the block size at the time which has a predetermined relation to the block size setting command.

Electronic apparatus, control method thereof, host device, and control method thereof

A functional module card and a host apparatus according to the present invention can constitute the digital broadcasting receiver apparatus. The functional module card includes a card controller and a tuner section. The tuner section inputs a digital broadcasting signal, generates a transport stream (referred to as a TS hereinafter) and a TS clock for transferring the TS, and directly transfers the TS and the TS clock to a decoder and descrambler of the host apparatus via a bus according to the TS clock. A data transfer method for transferring data between the card controller and the host controller of the host apparatus is a master-slave data transfer method in which the host controller operates as a master apparatus.

Functional module card for transferring digital broadcasting signal using a clock generated based on a synchronous signal extracted from a received data signal

An electronic apparatus includes a controller having an interface part communicating with an external host apparatus and a status register group, and having a plurality of functional units communicating with the host apparatus via the interface part, respectively. The status register group includes operable status registers corresponding to the functional units respectively and indicating whether or not the corresponding functional units are in an operable state, and processing status registers corresponding to the functional units respectively and indicating whether or not the corresponding functional units are in a Function-Being-Processed State. When a command received from the host apparatus is provided for any one of the functional units, the controller transfers the command to the functional unit. In the case of a read command for the status register group, the controller transmits a status of the status register group to the host apparatus as a response.

Electronic device having plurality of functional units and controller for controlling registers according to status of functional units

An integrated circuit (IC) card capable of a high-speed data transmission to/from a data transmission apparatus having low processing capability. A controlling section generates a data packet by adding management information including information regarding a data length of the data packet, and divides the data packet to generate data blocks. The data length of the data block is designated from the data transmission apparatus. When the data blocks which compose the single data packet are sent to the transmission apparatus a communicating section sends an interrupt signal to the data transmission apparatus if the data block including the management information is to be sent, and does not send the interrupt signal to the data transmission apparatus if a data block not including the management information is to be sent.

Integrated circuit (IC) card, data transmission apparatus, data transmission method and computer program of data transmission method

A small-sized and low-cost transmission apparatus and a transmission method (having a high responsivity) capable of transmitting an interrupt signal with a small number of input/output terminals (without a dedicated line for interrupt signals) are provided. A first transmission apparatus of the present invention comprises a central processing unit for carrying out an interrupt process in response to an interrupt signal; an input/output section having at least one data line for transmitting data signals between a second transmission apparatus and the first transmission apparatus and for transmitting an interrupt signal from the second transmission apparatus to the first transmission apparatus; and an interrupt signal detecting section for detecting an interrupt signal from among signals transmitted from the second transmission apparatus via the data line.

Transmission apparatus and transmission method

An electronic apparatus reads a digital data stream including a video signal and/or an audio signal outputted from an external apparatus according to a transmission clock different from a clock for the data stream, and outputs the video signal and/or audio signal without causing any discontinuity. The electronic apparatus includes a sample rate converter that rate-converts a predetermined volume of the audio signal in synchronization with a constant sampling clock, and changes a number of samples to be outputted, based on a data volume of an audio signal outputted by the electronic apparatus and a data volume of an audio signal transmitted from the external apparatus or transmittable from the external apparatus to the electronic apparatus.

Electronic apparatus and control method thereof using sample rate converter

In regard to a peripheral device in which commands are inputted and power is supplied from the main device, a peripheral device which can reduce power consumption while making use of a necessary function is provided. Peripheral device of the present invention comprises a functional unit which carries out a function based on commands from main device; a power control section which controls power consumption of the above-mentioned functional unit; a power profile information memory which memorizes a power profile information list that includes single or plural power profile information; and an interface section which sends and receives the above-mentioned power profile information and commands relevant to the functional unit to and from the above-mentioned main device; wherein the above-mentioned interface section corresponds to the demand from the above-mentioned main device and sends the above-mentioned power profile information list to the above-mentioned main device; and the above-mentioned power control section controls power consumption of the above-mentioned functional unit by corresponding to the selected information of the above-mentioned power profile information that was received from the above-mentioned main device.

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Osaka, Japan

Tatsuya Adachi