Methods and apparatus to implement library analytics and guided partitioning to select power-performance-area of semiconductor chip design

A non-transitory machine readable storage medium comprising instructions that cause processor circuitry to at least:

• determine a design block associated with a design exception;
• parse the design block into a functional netlist of cell families;
• generate a cell occurrence counts distribution based on ones of the cell families from the functional netlist;
• group the ones of the cell families corresponding to the cell occurrence counts distribution into ones of cell family bins, the ones of the cell family bins corresponding to at least one value of a fabrication parameter;
• determine inclusion of a first cell family bin of the ones of the cell family bins in the functional netlist does not improve first one or more process technology attribute values compared to second one or more process technology attribute values, the second one or more process technology attribute values corresponding to when the first cell family bin is removed from the functional netlist;
• and
• cause a user interface to indicate the first cell family bin as a cell family bin candidate for removal from the functional netlist.

A method comprising:

• determining a design block associated with a design exception;
• parsing the design block into a functional netlist of cell families;
• generating a cell occurrence counts distribution based on ones of the cell families from the functional netlist;
• grouping the ones of the cell families corresponding to the cell occurrence counts distribution into ones of cell family bins, the ones of the cell family bins corresponding to at least one value of a fabrication parameter;
• determining inclusion of a first cell family bin of the ones of the cell family bins in the functional netlist does not improve first one or more process technology attribute values compared to second one or more process technology attribute values, the second one or more process technology attribute values corresponding to when the first cell family bin is removed from the functional netlist;
• and
• causing a user interface to indicate the first cell family bin as a cell family bin candidate for removal from the functional netlist.