[spear]

You're talking about FPGA tools but this thread is about VLSI design where the major EDA vendors (Synopsys, Cadence, and Mentor) don't sell hardware(*) and *do* make a lot of money from software.

(*) Excluding emulators or simulation accelerators.

[mathisfun123]

> You're talking about FPGA tools but this thread is about VLSI design

did you miss the part where the comment i'm responding to is about VTR?

[ip26]

My bad, I thought we were talking about ASIC designers, not VTR developers.