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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 02, 2002
Filed:
Jul. 15, 1998
Shuji Satoh, Tokyo, JP;
NEC Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An integrated circuit device can be inspected in various ways while it is being installed on a circuit board. A bus control unit connects an external memory to a central processing unit in a normal mode. In an inspection mode, the bus control unit connects an inspection control circuit, which has a plurality of registers for temporarily storing instruction codes and data to be processed from an external circuit inspection device, to the central processing unit at a suitable time. When the instruction codes and data from the external circuit inspection are stored in the registers of the inspection control circuit, the central processing unit can be inspected while it is effecting a desired data processing operation.