Appeal No. 2006-1729
Application No. 10/107,628
22. A device comprising:
a plurality of inputs;
a plurality of outputs, the number of outputs being
less than the number of inputs;
exclusive OR gates coupled between certain of said
inputs and certain of said outputs;
at least one exclusive OR gate coupled between each
input and at least one output; and
each input being coupled to said outputs differently.
References
The Examiner relies on the following references:
Hong 4,241,307 Dec. 23, 1980
Rajski et al. (Rajski) 2003/0115521 Jun. 19, 2003
(filed Jan. 29, 2003)
Ivanov et al. (Ivanov), Programmable Bist Space Compactors, IEEE
Transactions on Computers, Vol. 45, Issue 12, pp 1393-1404, Dec.
1996.
Rejections At Issue
A. Claims 1, 6, 11, 15, 22 and 26 stand rejected under 35
U.S.C. § 102 as being anticipated by Ivanov1.
1 We note that this reference qualifies as prior art under 35 U.S.C. § 102 (b)
since it was published more than a year before the effective filing date of
the present application. Therefore, the Examiner should have rejected the
claims under 35 U.S.C. § 102 (b) instead.
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