Appeal No. 1998-2879
Application No. 08/474,856
Claim 1 is illustrative of the claimed invention, and it
reads as follows:
1. A device for use in an array of microcircuit
devices, said array of devices having distributed buffering
of control signals, each device requiring buffered control
signals to be applied thereto, said array further
including a network for distribution of said buffered
control signals to said array of devices, each of said
devices comprising:
functional circuitry for processing signals applied
thereto; and
a buffer circuit functionally independent from and
residing on the same microcircuit as said functional
circuitry, wherein each buffer circuit buffers one of a
plurality of control signals, each said one buffered
control signal being applied to said network for
distribution to functional circuitry of devices of said
array.
The references relied on by the examiner are:
Hoffman et al. (Hoffman) 3,868,657 Feb.
25, 1975
Redwine 4,110,639 Aug. 29,
1978
Matsuo et al. (Matsuo) 5,134,583 Jul. 28,
1992
Claims 1, 3, 5 through 8, 10, 12 through 14 and 18
through 20 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102 as anticipated
by Matsuo or, in the alternative, under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as
being unpatentable over Matsuo.
Claims 2, 9 and 20 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103
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