Program update system and electronic device with program update function
View Patent ↗A manufacturing cost of an integrated circuit chip used in a program update system or in an electronic device with program update function is reduced. A first integrated circuit chip has a USB interface circuit, a compression decoder, a CPU and a mask ROM. The first integrated circuit chip is a single chip consolidating a microcomputer with a USB host function and the compression decoder. A second integrated circuit chip has a CPU and an FROM, and serves as a system microcomputer to control the whole system of a car audio. A control program stored in the mask ROM is updated using the FROM incorporated in the second integrated circuit chip.
1. An electronic device with program update functions, comprising:
a first integrated circuit chip comprising an interface circuit interfacing with and directly connected to an external recording medium, a compression decoder decoding compressed data received from the external recording medium through the interface circuit, a mask ROM storing a first program to control the compression decoder, and a first CPU executing the first program stored in the mask ROM, the mask ROM and the first CPU operating as part of a ROM correction circuit correcting the first program stored in the mask ROM based on update information of the first program stored in the external recording medium; and
a second integrated circuit chip comprising an electrically erasable programmable nonvolatile memory and a second CPU executing a second program stored in the nonvolatile memory, the second integrated circuit chip being formed as one chip, and the second integrated circuit chip controlling the entire electronic device,
wherein the first integrated circuit chip is configured to transmit data to and receive data from the second integrated circuit chip and is configured to write the update information received from the external recording medium through the interface circuit into the nonvolatile memory,
the ROM correction circuit is configured to update the first program based on the update information received from the nonvolatile memory of the second integrated circuit chip when the first CPU executes the first program, and
the external recording medium stores only the update information and does not store a whole program that controls the compression decoder.
2. The electronic device with program update function of claim 1 , wherein the interface circuit comprises a USB interface circuit interfacing with a universal serial bus.
3. The electronic device with program update function of claim 1 , wherein the nonvolatile memory comprises a flash memory.
4. The electronic device with program update function of claim 1 , wherein the update information comprises a correction address that is an address in the mask ROM for update and program correction data that replaces program data stored in said address in the mask ROM, and the ROM correction circuit further comprises a retaining circuit temporarily retaining the correction address and the program correction data received from the nonvolatile memory and a selection circuit outputting to the first CPU the program correction data when an address outputted from the first CPU coincides with the correction address temporarily retained in the retaining circuit and outputting to the first CPU program data stored in the mask ROM when the address outputted from the first CPU does not coincide with the correction address.
5. The electronic device with program update function of claim 4 , wherein the retaining circuit comprises a random access memory.
6. An audio device with program update functions, comprising:
a tuner;
an electric volume control;
a power amplifier for speakers;
an LCD panel;
an LCD driver driving the LCD panel;
a first integrated circuit chip comprising an interface circuit interfacing with an external USB memory, a compression decoder decoding compressed audio data received from the external USB memory through the interface circuit, a mask ROM storing a decoding program to control the compression decoder to decode the compressed audio data, and a first CPU executing the decoding program stored in the mask ROM, the mask ROM and the first CPU operating as part of a ROM correction circuit correcting the decoding program stored in the mask ROM based on update information of the decoding program stored in the external USB memory; and
a second integrated circuit chip comprising an electrically erasable programmable nonvolatile memory and a second CPU executing an operation program stored in the nonvolatile memory, the second integrated circuit chip being formed as one chip, and the second integrated circuit chip controlling the tuner, the electric volume control and the LCD driver
wherein the first integrated circuit chip is configured to transmit data to and receive data from the second integrated circuit chip and is configured to write the update information received from the external USB memory through the interface circuit into the nonvolatile memory,
the ROM correction circuit is configured to update the decoding program based on the update information received from the nonvolatile memory of the second integrated circuit chip when the first CPU executes the decoding program, and
the external USB memory stores only the update information and does not store a whole program that controls the compression decoder.