Patent ID: 8407630

Claim:
A method for modeling and cross correlating, comprising: using at least one processor to execute a sequence of instructions stored upon a non-transitory computer readable medium for performing a process, the process comprising: generating a prioritized list of correlated critical features from multiple design domains of a design layout, wherein the multiple design domains comprise at least a manufacturing process domain and an electronic circuit design domain; improving the prioritized list based at least in part on yield information using at least manufacturing data and a set of weighting parameters, wherein the act of improving the prioritized list includes tuning the set of weighting parameters by substantially matching a first criticality prediction from the manufacturing data with a second criticality prediction from a result of a parametric simulation; updating the manufacturing data from production of the design layout based at least in part upon using the set of weighting parameters, which has been tuned, in a filtering process; and providing updated manufacturing data for further improving one or more future lists.