Personal data assistant terminal with radio

• US 6,542,726 B2
• Filed: 06/08/1998
• Issued: 04/01/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 06/10/1997
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Lenovo Innovations Ltd Hong Kong (Lenovo Group Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Inventors: Watanabe, Mitsuhiro
• Primary Examiner(s): Trost, William
• Assistant Examiner(s): Nguyen, Simon
• Application Number:
  US09/093,257
• Publication Number:
  US 20010044286A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,758 Days
• Field of Search: 455/231, 455/234.2, 455/403, 455/127, 455/343, 455/572, 455/574, 455/575, 455/556, 340/7.38, 340/7.32
• US Class Current: 455/572
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/20 for coupling gramophone pick-up, recorder output, or microphone to receiver
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/3805 with built-in auxiliary receivers

Abstract

The invention provides a personal data assistant terminal with radio having data transmission and reception functions by a radio wave wherein the applied power supply mode of a CPU can be changed over to a power supply mode required by a peripheral circuit to the CPU. When a power supply mode change-over signal representing a power supply mode which is to be entered subsequently and a power supply mode defining signal for defining the power supply mode represented by the power supply mode change-over signal are inputted from the outside to a power supply control section of a CPU, a CPU core in the CPU changes over the applied power supply mode of the CPU to the power supply mode represented by the power supply mode change-over signal.

Claims

1. A personal data assistant terminal which has data transmission and reception functions by a radio wave and a plurality of different power supply modes, comprising:

a radio;

a CPU for effecting power supply control of said personal data assistant terminal, the CPU having an operating condition defined by a plurality of power supply modes in which a system clock signal has a different frequency in each of the plurality of modes of said CPU, in addition to an off mode; and

a power supply control for controlling the operating condition, by way of the power supply modes, of said CPU, the power supply control receiving status information from peripheral circuits and controlling the operative condition of said CPU based on a status of a peripheral circuit of said personal data assistant terminal;

said power supply control having a terminal for transmitting, as an input signal to said CPU, a power supply mode change-over signal representative of one of said plurality of power supply modes which is to be entered subsequently by said CPU, and another terminal for transmitting, as an input signal to said CPU, a power supply mode defining signal for defining said power supply mode represented by the power supply change-over signal.

2. A personal data assistant terminal with radio as claimed in claim 1, wherein the power supply modes include a “

FULL”

mode in which a system clock signal with which said CPU operates has a first frequency, a “

SLOW”

mode in which the system clock signal has a second frequency lower than the first frequency, a “

DOZE mode in which the system clock signal has a third frequency lower than the second frequency and some of functions of said CPU are inoperative, and a “

SUSPEND”

mode in which the power supply is close to that in a power supply off mode in which no power is supplied to said CPU.

3. A personal data assistant terminal with radio as claimed in claim 1, wherein said power supply control comprises a peripheral circuit external to said CPU which includes means for indicating a power supply mode to be entered subsequently to said CPU, the power supply mode defining signal being put into an effective condition in a timed relationship with a power supply transition timing signal of said peripheral circuit.

4. A personal data assistant terminal with radio as claimed in claim 1, wherein said CPU is started in a mode in which said CPU generates minimum electromagnetic noise in response to an instruction from a circuit which controls power supply to a peripheral circuit in response to a starting instruction of said CPU.

5. A personal data assistant terminal with radio as claimed in claim 2, wherein the power supply mode of the CPU can be changed arbitrarily based on the status of the peripheral circuit.

6. A personal data assistant terminal with radio which has data transmission and reception functions by a radio wave and a plurality of different power supply modes, comprising:

a CPU for effecting power supply control of said personal data assistant terminal with radio;

said CPU having a terminal for receiving, as an input signal thereto, a power supply mode change-over signal representative of a power supply mode which is to be entered subsequently by said CPU, and another terminal for receiving, as an input signal thereto, a power supply mode defining signal for defining a power supply mode represented by the power supply change-over signal,

wherein said CPU is started in a mode in which said CPU generates minimum electromagnetic noise in response to an instruction from a circuit which controls power supply to a peripheral circuit in response to a starting instruction of said CPU.