Appeal No. 1997-3358 Page 3
Application No. 08/477,742
writing a pattern to the data RAM and the
broadcast RAM;
comparing the contents of the data RAM with the
pattern using memory test circuitry; and comparing
the contents of the broadcast RAM with the pattern
using said memory test circuitry;
testing said specific functions of said
plurality of processing elements of the data path
with data path test circuitry in accordance with
results of said comparing steps; and
controlling said writing, comparing and testing
steps using a test controller.
The references relied on in rejecting the claims follow:
Jacobson 4,715,034 Dec. 22, 1987
Choy 5,075,892 Dec. 24, 1991
Eikill et al. 5,274,648 Dec. 28,
1993.
(Eikill) (filing Feb. 3,
1992)
Claims 21-23 and 25-34 and stand provisionally rejected
under the judicially created doctrine of obviousness-type
double patenting as being unpatentable over claims 1-20 of
U.S. Patent Application No. 08/224,407. Claims 21-40 stand 1
1The examiner should consider (provisionally) rejecting
the claims of U.S. Patent Application No. 08/224,407 under the
judicially created doctrine of obviousness-type double
patenting as being unpatentable over the claims of the
instant application.
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