PURPOSE: To confirm an normal operation of a general purpose EDC LSI by a simple hardware constitution.
CONSTITUTION: An EDC bit inversion control part 9 transmits alternately an output enable signal to a data 1-bit, inverting part 15 and a data 2-bit inverting part 16 so that data subjected to 1-bit 2-bit inversion is sent to an EDC LSI 3, and a central control processor 17 executes a read-out operation to a main storage device 1. The main storage device 1 transmits the data subjected to 1-bit or 2-bit inversion to the EDC LSI 3 by the data 1-bit inverting part 15 or the data 2-bit inverting part 16. The EDC LSI 13 transmits 1-bit, 2-bit error report signals 6, 7 to a register 8, when a bit error detecting circuit 4 receives the data subjected to 1-bit, 2-bit inversion, and the register 8 confirms a fact that a 1-bit, 2-bit error detecting circuit is operating normally.