> However, last I checked the solutions produced by VPR aren't as good as the commercial tools. Well, that's no surprise: FPGA vendors spend a lot of manpower

> However, last I checked the solutions produced by VPR aren't as good as the commercial tools. Well, that's no surprise: FPGA vendors spend a lot of manpower on improving their Place&Route software. If you wanted to build something competitive, you'd need a lot of money plus access to proprietary, non-public, information.