摘要 |
<p><P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a semiconductor integrated circuit, reducing the power consumption of a processor core without lowering the processing speed of a processor. <P>SOLUTION: In the VLIW system processor core having a function of restoring a compression instruction and executing it, at the processing stage of restoring the compression instruction, a part where NOP instruction is inserted is detected based on the instruction position information, and a decode circuit and an execution circuit corresponding to the part are made inactive by interrupting an operation clock, for example. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT</p> |