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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 14, 2003
Filed:
Feb. 12, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Matsushta Electric Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03K 9/04 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H03K 9/04 ;
Abstract
A semiconductor device includes: a transmitting section; and a receiving section, wherein the transmitting section and the receiving section are connected to each other through a bus, the transmitting section includes an encoding section for encoding data including a plurality of bits to produce bit-position information which indicates a position of at least one bit selected from the plurality of bits included in the data, and an output section for outputting the bit-position information onto the bus, and the receiving section includes an input section for receiving the bit-position information from the bus, and a decoding section for decoding the bit-position information to produce the data.