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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 02, 2002
Filed:
Feb. 26, 1999
Toshikazu Nakajima, Tokyo, JP;
NEC Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
There is provided an integrated circuit electrically connected to both a central processing unit and a memory, for controlling an electronic device, the integrated circuit including (a) a peripheral functional block operating under an operation mode the central processing unit indicated, (b) a communicator for communicating an internal signal to the peripheral functional block, (c) at least two registers capable of being initialized with a desired initial value stored in the memory in accordance with indications from the central processing unit, and (d) a switch receiving an external signal to select one of the registers, a signal being transmitted to the communicator through the thus selected register. The integrated circuit makes it no longer necessary to initialize registers when an operation mode is switched, unlike a conventional integrated circuit.