If there are billions of transistors in a CPU, there is no chance that somebody designed every single one of them manually. Is their layout calculated or something?

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If there are billions of transistors in a CPU, there is no chance that somebody designed every single one of them manually. Is their layout calculated or something?

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Yes. You describe the behavior of the circuit using VHDL language, and the “compiler” uses basic rules to design the circuit and generate the reticles for use in fabrication of the circuits

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