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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 09, 1999
Filed:
Aug. 25, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Yuichiro Miwa, Tokyo, JP;
Katsunobu Hongo, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
711167 ; 711103 ; 711168 ; 710262 ; 714 30 ;
Abstract
A microcomputer capable of solving a problem in that the load of software is heavy for setting a watchdog timer in a conventional microcomputer. It includes a switching circuit which supplies a central processing unit with the output of the watchdog timer as an interrupt signal unless a memory data write mode for writing data to a memory is not designated from the outside of the microcomputer, and which inhibits an overflow signal of the watchdog timer from being supplied to the central processing unit when the memory data write mode is designated from the outside of the microcomputer.