SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT, RECEIVER APPARATUS USING THE SAME, RECEIVER APPARATUS MANUFACTURING METHOD AND REPAIRING METHOD, AND VIDEO PROVIDING METHOD

摘要

In a receiver or the like for reproducing encrypted video signals, a semiconductor integrated circuit wherein the number of the components used therein has been reduced and wherein, after completion of the receiver hardware, information can be written into a nonvolatile memory and the written information cen be rewritten. This semiconductor integrated circuit is one for use in an apparatus for receiving encrypted video signals and has an interface circuit for effecting a serial communication with the exterior and also has a memory control circuit for controlling the nonvolatile memory to write and/or read a first information to be transmitted to the exterior by the interface circuit and a second information to be used to decrypt the encrypted video signals.