Appeal No. 1997-0300
Application 08/138,790
memory will cross the memory block boundary, the write buffer
will have two entries, the first entry having the address of
the memory location where the beginning of the data is to be
stored
and the second entry having the address of the continuing
memory location.
Turning to the rejection based upon 35 U.S.C. § 103,
we find that Shimp teaches a microprocessor system where the
data output by the processor can be of fewer bytes than the
number of bytes of data that can be stored in one memory
location. See column 1, lines 34 to 39. To avoid wasting
memory by allocating
a small number of bytes of data to a multi-byte memory
location, the data is stored in contiguously packed multi-byte
units which are not equal to memory word width. See column
1, lines 39 to 45. As a result, the data from the processor
may cross memory boundaries which requires two writes to store
the data in two memory locations. See column 7, lines 55 to
59.
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