Appeal No. 96-3274
Application 08/173,408
the final rejection of claims 1-10 and 15. The amendment
after final rejection to claim 6 (Paper No. 17) has been
entered.
We reverse.
BACKGROUND
The disclosed invention is directed to a data interface
among micro-engines. A "micro-engine is a specialized
controller incorporating customized random logic within a
basic micro-code processor" (specification, page 4). The
micro-engines are attached via a point-to-point interface to a
Network Interface Module (NIM) (i.e., there is no
communication among all the system components). The NIM
provides normal system level control of the major system
components and contains the synchronization circuitry to
provide asynchronous timing between the NIM and a dynamic
register in the micro-engine.
Claim 1 is reproduced below.
1. In a digital data processing system having a system
element embedded in a parallel processing architecture,
an apparatus comprising:
a. a micro-engine for controlling said system
element;
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