Routing is the easiest part of layout, and there have been auto-routers (which mostly worked) for a long time now; the difficult task is in placing components, and adjusting those placements.

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amelius 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Sure, I was just using "route" to mean also floorplanning because that's what Astra's routing tool also does. Not sure how they name it. Sorry if I was sloppy.

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nickff 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Not at all, but the term for routing and placing the components is ‘layout’. Floorplanning usually refers to the laying out of larger blocks of the circuit (with the blocks themselves already having been laid-out).

	▲	amelius an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Yes but I'm not so concerned with how people name these steps.