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To: Scumbria who wrote (61453)6/11/1999 12:19:00 PM
From: kapkan4u  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1571554
 
<Scumbria - re: The amount of work required to hand place the cells must have been phenomenal. I can't imagine them making any significant changes. It is possible that their libraries have better compacted cells in 0.18u.>

Scumbria,

Can you explain the pros and cons of hand placement vs. a computer-generated layout? What was the reason for AMD to do the layout by hand?

Kap.