Patent ID: 8136078

Claim:
A method of optimizing a design of a device with respect to a predetermined metric, the method comprising: obtaining a design for a given device, the design comprising a plurality of design components and physical connections between the design components, each design component being a standard cell of a specific function; determining from the plurality of design components at least one group of first design components influencing a predetermined metric to which the design is optimized, wherein the process of determining from the plurality of design components comprises partitioning the plurality of design components into at least a group of first design components and a group of second design components, the first design components putting a larger burden on the predetermined metric than the second design components; and tuning at least the first design components and tuning the technology and/or settings for manufacturing the first design components thus reducing the variability of the first design components and obtaining an optimized design with respect to the predetermined metric, wherein the method is performed by one or more computing devices.