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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 28, 2006
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2002
Masanori Yamada, Kanagawa, JP;
Masanori Yamada, Kanagawa, JP;
Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
To provide a microcontroller having a function for stopping supply of a clock signal to a slave block and a function for properly stopping the access to a slave block to which supply of a clock signal is stopped. A microcontroller of the present invention has a master blockfor controlling the whole microcontroller, slave blocksandto be controlled by the master blockclock-signal control meansandfor controlling supply/stop of a clock signal in response to a clock control signal output from the master block, and a default slave blockfor outputting a response signal RESP instead of a slave block to which supply of a clock signal is stopped.