A control circuit for receiving data transmitted by a data transmitting circuit and transmitting the received data to a data receiving circuit includes: a data receiving unit for receiving the data transmitted by the data transmitting circuit; a packet analyzing unit for judging whether the data received from the data transmitting circuit is a packet including history acquisition information and reading the history acquisition information from the received data; a history acquisition executing unit for starting or stopping acquiring the history information of the transmission and reception of the data according to the history acquisition information read by the packet analyzing unit to store the history information acquired; and a data transmitting unit for transmitting the packet including the history acquisition information or a packet other than the packet including the history acquisition information to the data receiving circuit.