Appeal No. 1997-0300
Application 08/138,790
We find that Ardini teaches a microprocessor system
where data to be written to memory is sent from the processor
to a write buffer (buffer) for temporary storage in the
buffer. See column 5, lines 45 through 54. Ardini teaches
that the micro- processor writes data as either 16 or 32 bits
and that both the write buffer and memory can accept 64
bits of data. See column 4, lines 1 through 5 and 22 through
25. We find that Ardini teaches making a determination of
whether the data written to the buffer is to be stored in
successive memory locations. If
so, the data is merged together and stored in memory with one
write from the write buffer (i.e. data from the
microprocessor, which contains fewer bytes than the width of
the memory are merged with other data into one write to one
memory location). See column 1, lines 51 through 66, and
column 5, lines 13 through 44. We find that Ardini teaches
that the timesaving advantage of the buffer is that it reduces
the number of writes
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