Appeal No. 1997-0342
Application 08/229,135
rejection filed October 18, 1995 which canceled claims 11 and
12 was entered by the Examiner. A further amendment after
final rejection filed
February 20, 1996 along with the Appeal brief which canceled
claim 13 was also entered by the Examiner. Accordingly,
claims 10 and 14 through 16 remain before us on appeal.
The claimed invention relates to a test facilitating
circuit in which tests are carried out in either a self-test
mode or a fault diagnosis/failure analysis mode. In the
self test mode, a test data generating circuit outputs test
data onto an internal bus while during the fault
diagnosis/failure analysis mode, data is transferred onto the
internal bus through a register from external input terminals.
A selector is utilized to select the test data from either the
internal bus or the external input terminals for the
respective test modes.
Claim 14 is illustrative of the invention and reads as
follows:
14. A test facilitating circuit comprising:
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