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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: kapkan4u who wrote (62492)6/20/1999 9:58:00 AM
From: Scumbria   of 1576297
 
Kap,

I believe that Dirk Meyer said just the opposite in his presentation. Namely that no synthesis tools were used and the placement was done by hand.

I can confirm that Dirk said very little synthesis was used, and that placement was done by hand. Routing was done automatically.

how can you tell that the core was synthesized just by looking at the sample?

It is actually very easy to distinguish between a place & route block, and a hand placed block. P&R produces very random looking patterns on the die, whereas hand placed blocks appear quite regular.

Scumbria
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