Appeal No. 1999-0007
Application 08/688,218
The geometry, simulation model and schematic symbol databases
(i.e., libraries) are the embodiment of the integrated circuit
being created (column 8, lines 44-53). Upton states:
If a version of the module [integrated
circuit] is needed in a different rule set,
a design rule variable file containing
these new values can be substituted for the
original file. The module compiler 68 can
produce the geometry simulation model,
schematic symbol and transistor model
generators (65, 69, 67 and 70,
respectively) embodying the constraints as
specified for any given design rule set.
[Column 9, lines 26-32.]
Thus, Upton does not translate the databases embodying a first
integrated circuit (of a first technology) to databases embodying
a second integrated circuit (of a second technology). Rather,
Upton substitutes a different rule set into the design program,
and generates databases for an integrated circuit ab initio, not
by translation from existing first integrated circuit databases.
Appellant further argues that Dai makes no teaching or
suggestion that the place and route database is also used to map
into another place and route database for a different
manufacturing process (brief-page 14). Still further, Appellant
argues, nothing in Dai teaches or suggests mapping between two
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