Appeal No. 1999-2568
Application No. 08/640,096
claim 7 was amended.
The disclosed invention relates to a method and system
for implementing wire-or functions.
Claims 1 and 7 are illustrative of the claimed invention,
and they read as follows:
1. A method of improving a system cycle time in a
system implementing wire-or function comprising the step
of:
reducing a wire-or glitch so that a bus can be
sampled after a single trip propagation delay.
7. A system supporting wire-or functions
comprising:
a plurality of drivers disposed along a bus, the
drivers having a gradual rise time and a rapid fall time
such that for any pair of simultaneously switching
drivers along the bus, a falling signal of one of the
pair of drivers along the bus will propagate to a rising
signal of another of the pair of drivers along the bus
before the rising signal reaches a predetermined level;
and
a first terminal resistor and second terminal
resistor coupled to a first end and a second end of the
bus, respectively.
The reference relied on by the examiner is:
Belluche 3,694,665 Sep. 26,
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