Though Mead & Conway students used CAD from the start, there is nothing in their method that would keep it from also being used in hand taped designs. Current

Though Mead & Conway students used CAD from the start, there is nothing in their method that would keep it from also being used in hand taped designs. Current attempts to design CPUs with open source tools are not so nice since they tend to be one big standard cell blob. Adding some PLA and RAM generators would improve this.