A semiconductor device equipped with a primary semiconductor element and a temperature detecting element for detecting a temperature of the primary semiconductor element. The plane form of the pad electrode 16 has four branches 16b protruding in the form of a cross from a circular central part 16a and the adjacent pad electrodes 16 connected to each other by the branches 16b. In a production process of the planographic printing plate, the image-forming surface and the slip sheet are adhered by suitably charging, and following their lamination, the charge rapidly dissipates resulting in favorable separation, discharge characteristics and storage characteristics in an automatic plate feeder. The first N memory locations are allocated to the first partition; the next N memory locations to the second partition; and so on until the Kth partition. The system and method includes a processor that includes programming engines with registers for transferring data from one of the registers residing in an executing programming engine to a subsequent one of the registers residing in an adjacent programming engine.