Appeal No. 96-1152
Application 08/001,091
DECISION ON APPEAL
Appellants have appealed to the Board from the examiner’s
final rejection of claims 1 to 10, which constitute all the
claims in the application.
Representative claim 1 is reproduced below:
1. A method operable by an electronic device for selecting
one of a plurality of devices each having a data width and which
are addressed using a first number of address lines, wherein each
of the devices is coupled to a data bus having a data width, and
wherein the data width of each device is less than or equal to
the data bus width, the method comprising:
decoding said first number of address lines to produce a
plurality of signals each representing selection of a different
one of the devices;
encoding said plurality of selection representing signals
into a set of addressing signals having an encoded value wherein
each encoded value represents a different one of the devices and
the number of signals in said set is less than said first number;
decoding said encoded set of addressing signals to produce a
signal representing selection of one of the devices; and
selecting the device using said selection signal.
The following reference is relied on by the examiner:
Baker et al. (Baker) 5,119,292 June 2, 1992
(filed July 21, 1989)
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