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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 03, 2012
Filed:
Jun. 25, 2010
Masayoshi Murayama, Hanno, JP;
Masayoshi Murayama, Hanno, JP;
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
According to one embodiment, the host controller includes a transmission circuit that encodes transmission data, according to a serial transfer format, a reception circuit that decodes received data, according to the serial transfer format, a variable frequency clock generator that generates a card clock and a transfer clock, a card clock output unit that outputs the card clock to the memory card, an interface unit includes a transmission interface that transfers the transmission data from the transmission circuit to the memory card in synchronization with the transfer clock, and a reception interface that transfers received data from the memory card to the reception circuit in synchronization with the transfer clock, and a setting register circuit that holds setting information concerning an input/output method of the memory card, and controls frequency of the transfer clock generated by the variable frequency clock generator, based on the setting information.