摘要 |
<p><P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To suppress undesired power consumption by distributing a clock for every functional block of an electronic apparatus, thereby performing an appropriate clock control for every functional block. <P>SOLUTION: In an operation controller 1 provided wiyh the functional block 5, which has a register 13 to be acessed from the outside and executes a required operation, and a clock supply device 4, which supplies the clock to the functional block, a clock supply device comprises a clock automatic stop control section 10, which automatically stops the clock supply to the functional block when no access to the register of the functional block is found for a specified time and automatically reopens the clock supply to the functional block when register access to the functional block is found. The clock supply to the functional block is automatically stopped when elapsing a specified time after busy signal-on indicating that the functional block is in operation is turned off. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI</p> |