Patent ID: 6128733
Filing Date: 2000-10-03
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
A program loading method for loading the desired program data in one or more functional circuits carrying out specified operations in accordance with supplied program data,the program loading method having a step in which a plurality of sets of program data are held by storing them separately for each set in specified storage areas in a program memory along with holding address pointers indicating the storage addresses of each set of program data at predetermined storage addresses in the program memory,a step in which program designation information corresponding to any single pointer among the address pointers is given in order to designate the desired set of program data,a step in which, based on the program designation data, the address pointers corresponding thereto are read out, and the storage addresses of the sets of program data that the program designation information designates are computed in accordance with the read-out address pointers,and a step in which the sets of program data that the program designation information designates are read out from the computed storage addresses and the read-out program data is transferred to the above-mentioned corresponding functional circuits, and which transfer destination identification information used for identifying the functional circuits which are to serve as transfer destinations is contained in a specified first portion of each group of program data.