Appeal No. 94-3053
Application 07/832,661
said counter." We fail to find a teaching of this limitation
with the necessary suggestions found in the prior art to
combine it with the circuitry of Hester. Therefore, we will
not sustain the Examiner's rejection of Appellants' claim 10.
Claim 22
Claim 22 stands rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 in
view of Hester. Appellants only argue that Hester fails to
teach "said read-only memory is on-chip." Brief at 4. On
this point, Hester discloses that:
The support processor may be a general
purpose computer, such as an IBM PC, IBM
Series 1, etc., containing programs which
interface to the LSSD scan strings . . . to
implement the required debug functions.
Col. 2, lines 51-55.
The above-described types of general purpose
computers have read-only memory and, for saving space and cost
reasons, such memory is typically on the same semiconductor
chip as its related support processor or "condition sensor."
To the extent that Hester’s read-only memory may not have been
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