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Amazingly fascinating! Interesting how this process works in modern era.
by AnonNo15 11y ago
Amazingly fascinating! Interesting how this process works in modern era.
- wkoszek 11y agoNowadays it's much more complex and very much like software. Things got very complex, so a lot of things which Intel guys did by hand is nowadays done by a design program. For example: they devote a lot of time to describe how layout was done by hand. Right now you nearly never draw new rectangles of metal layer to build gates. Big fabs like TSMC will give you the library of cells which they know they can product. You'll tie it in your EDA VLSI software and you'll basically get a netlist from a Verilog simulator. And from there you'll do more via auto-placement for highly repeatable parts, and you'll do placement by hand for things you really care about. And you're assisted by software doing design checks all the way from design to manufacturing.