Appeal No. 2005-2512
Reexamination Control No. 90/006,431
D. The claims
The first Office action8 included rejections of claims 1-18 over prior art. In the
“Response to First Official Action,”9 appellant amended all of the independent claims
(i.e., claims 1 and 16-18) to more specifically recite a “graphical user interface including
interactive tools for viewing selected portions of said power net.” Claim 17 thus
amended, which is one of the broader independent claims, reads on the Figure 1
embodiment as follows:10
17. (amended). A system for analyzing power nets of an integrated
circuit, comprising:
a power net extractor [ARCADIA], said power net extractor
extracting a power net netlist [114] for a power net from an integrated
circuit layout;
a circuit simulator [118] coupled to said power net extractor, said
circuit simulator determining current at selected integrated circuit devices
of said integrated circuit electrically connected to said power net;
a power net simulator [116] coupled to said circuit simulator, said
power net simulator determining a characteristic of portions of said power
net according to current at said selected integrated circuit devices; and
8 Paper No. 14, mailed August 25, 2003.
9 Paper No. 17, received October 24, 2003.
10 The discussions of the rejections in the Final Office Action quote the claims in
their original, unamended form. However, the examiner states at page 57 thereof that
the amendments have been considered.
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