Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Semiconductor device and method of operating the same
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Application No.: US16853139Application Date: 2020-04-20
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Publication No.: US10997105B2Publication Date: 2021-05-04
- Inventor: Yoshitaka Taki , Tadaaki Tanimoto
- Applicant: RENESAS ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: RENESAS ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: RENESAS ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: McDermott Will & Emery LLP
- Priority: JPJP2019-111998 20190617
- Main IPC: G06F13/40
- IPC: G06F13/40 ; G06F21/72

Abstract:
In a semiconductor device including a lockstep function, conflicts of bus accesses by a plurality of processors are suppressed. The semiconductor device includes a first processor, a second processor for monitoring operation of the first processor in a first mode, first and second buses, first and second non-shared resources dedicated to either the first or second processor in a second mode, and a first selector for selecting a bus for transferring interface signals between the second processor and the selected bus. In a second mode in which the first and second processors execute different instructions, the first selector selects the second bus. In the second mode, the first non-shared resource is accessed by the first processor via the first bus and the second non-shared resource is accessed by the second processor via the second bus.
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