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01 ·Supply Chain·★ MEMBER·10 min read EDA Tools from Scratch — Chips Are Written in Software Nobody hand-places the tens of billions of transistors on a leading-edge chip. Designers write text (RTL), and software compiles it into physical geometry through synthesis, place-and-route, and verification. Here is that pipeline from zero, plus why Synopsys and Cadence became impossible to route around.