Control module used especially in large microprocessors such as Digital Signal Processors, has arrangement which enables lower power consumption

摘要

The control module (1) includes the following elements, a dead Read-only-memory (ROM) (2), a temporary memory (6), to which the data in the ROM is to be transferred in order to be accessible from the exterior of the control module, a reading controller (3), for selecting from each reading cycle, the portions of this ROM transferred to the temporary memory. The portions selected by the reading controller, depends on the contents of this Read-only-memory.