Patent ID: 7657676

Claim:
A signal transmission system, comprising: a first integrated circuit device; a second integrated circuit device which includes a first register and performs serial transmission with said first integrated circuit device; a third integrated circuit device which performs parallel transmission with said second integrated circuit device; a fourth integrated circuit device which performs a serial transmission with said second integrated circuit device, wherein information, which indicates which part of first serial data is selected to transmit to said third integrated circuit device, is processed so as to be set into said first register the first serial data including a first part, which is to be transmitted to said third integrated circuit device via said second integrated circuit device and a second part, which is to be transmitted to said fourth integrated circuit device via said second integrated circuit device, wherein said second integrated circuit device extracts, from the first serial data, said first part of said first serial data which is to be transmitted to said third integrated circuit device based on said information set into said first register, and transmits said extracted first part of said first serial data to said third integrated circuit device by said parallel transmission, and wherein said second integrated circuit device serializes data transmitted by said parallel transmission from said third integrated circuit device, and transmits, as second serial data, said serialized data by said serial transmission to said first integrated circuit device, and wherein said second integrated circuit device includes a second register, and, based on information in said second register, serializes said data transmitted by said parallel transmission from said third integrated circuit device, and thereby generates said second serial data.