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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 05, 2001
Filed:
Aug. 31, 1998
Hiroshi Imanishi, Kyoto, JP;
Toshiyuki Araki, Osaka, JP;
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A processor, a task management table, and a scheduler are built in a microcontroller. The processor sequentially runs a plurality of tasks for controlling hardware engines (cores) respectively allocated thereto. The task management table stores task management information which includes state information (ST INFO) representative of the execution state of each task, priority information (PRI INFO) representative of the execution priority of each task, and core identification information (CID INFO) representative of the allocation of the tasks to the cores. The scheduler allows the processor to switch between tasks on the basis of the task management information when a given instruction is decoded or when the execution of any one of the cores is terminated.