Appeal No. 2005-2512
Reexamination Control No. 90/006,431
2. The Arcadia Manual
While the Arcadia Manual includes subject matter like that present in the RailMill
documents, it also differs from those documents in several significant respects. First, it
was published by Archer rather than by Epic. Second, at page iii it identifies ChipViewer
as a copyright of Archer, which as of the February 1995 publication date had not been
acquired by Epic, and at page 7-1 describes ChipViewer as “the Graphical User
Interface to ARCADIA.” Third, the Arcadia Manual discloses ChipViewer being used
with simulators other than RailMill. Thus, Figure 1-3 (at page 1-8), reproduced below,
shows ARCADIA being used to generate netlists for SPICE, TimeMill, PowerMill, or
RailMill, of which the last three are identified at page iii as Epic simulators:
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