Appeal No. 96-0576
Application 07/846,231
(e) decoding the address(es) to be accessed, the
decoding performed by at least one of the MCU and the
IOU to determine whether the access is directed toward
memory or I/O devices; and
(f) canceling one of said requests to the MCU and IOU
based on the results of said decoding step (e).
We note that Appellants’ claim 4 recites in part the following:
(a) decoding a first part of an instruction from the
instruction set;
(b) determining if said instruction requires an access
operation;
(c) sending a request to at least two of the resources
to enter an access state if it is determined in step b
that access to the resources is required;
(d) decoding the remainder of the instruction to
determine the address(es) to be accessed;
(e) decoding the address(es) to be accessed, decoding
performed by at least one of the resources to determine
which of said at least two of the resources will be
accessed; and
(f) canceling the remainder of the requests based on
the results of said decoding step (e).
Finally, we note that Appellants’ only remaining independent
claim, Appellants’ claim 7, recites in part the following:
(a) means for decoding a first part of an instruction
from the instruction set;
(b) means for determining if said instruction requires
an access operation;
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