Abstract:
A CMOS logic circuit which efficiently uses the relatively high power supply voltage of the system and consumes less electric power. The CMOS circuit is divided into a plurality of circuit blocks (5 and 6) and is formed on layers so as to divide the power supply voltage. A power supply voltage stabilizing unit (1) is provided for each layer and level converting circuits (7 and 8) for transferring signals. The power consumption of a system requiring a relatively high power supply voltage can be reduced without increasing the circuit scale by using a low-voltage CMOS logic circuit constituted of random logics, etc.
Abstract:
For manufacturing a mobile communication terminal, reduction of the cost, power consumption, and size is a very important factor, and it is a major problem for the conventional technique in which two independent sets of DSPs and CPUs are used, because two systems of external memories are required. Further, since two systems of peripheral devices for data input/output are necessary for the DSPs and CPUs, there exists useless overhead between the DSPs and CPUs. A mobile communication terminal system is realized by using an integrated DSP/CPU chip having a DSP/CPU core (500) integrated as a single bus master, an integrated external bus interface (606) and an integrated peripheral circuit interface. Therefore, an inexpensive, low-power consumption, small-sized mobile communication terminal system is provided because the memory systems and peripheral circuits of the DSPs and CPUs are integrated.