It seems that these agreed upon items help fill in some holes when trying to figure out the contested construction.

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The parties have agreed to the construction of the following terms.

1. ‘336 Patent

“Oscillator” means “a circuit capable of maintaining an alternating output.” “On-chip input/output interface” means “a circuit having logic for input/output communications, where that circuit is located on the same semiconductor substrate as the CPU (claims 1-2, 6-10) or the microprocessor (claims 3-5).” “Integrated circuit” means “a miniature circuit on a single semiconductor substrate.” “External memory bus” means “a group of conductors coupled between the I/O interface and an external storage device.”

 2. ‘148 Patent

“Integrated circuit substrate” means “a single supporting material upon or within which is formed a miniature circuit.”

3. ‘584 Patent

“Instruction” means “a command to a processor that tells the processor what operation to perform.” “Boundary of said instruction groups” means “beginning or end of an instruction group.” “Supplying, from said instruction groups, using the predetermined location, said operand or instruction or both to said central processing unit” means “using the results of the locating step in the step of transferring the bits from the accessed operand or instruction to the central processing unit.” “Instruction register” means “a hardware element that receives and holds an instruction group as it is extracted from memory; the register either contains or is connected to circuits that interpret the instructions in the group.”