The present invention provides a central processing unit-containing
large-scale integration (hereinafter, referred to as a "CPU-containing
LSI") in which software stored in an external memory is incorporated
partially into a random access memory (hereinafter, referred to as "RAM")
and thereby the capacity of the RAM to be used can be held down, and an
optical disk device including the same. In the CPU-containing LSI, the
RAM includes a software storage region where software read in from the
external memory on a module-by-module basis is stored, and an entry table
in which entries are stored, with the entries each containing at least
information as to a location and a size of a module stored in the
software storage region. The CPU refers to the entry table to decide the
location where a module to be read in from the external memory to the
software storage region is to be stored, according to an
incorporation-location search program.