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Implementing your own routing algorithms, running these procedures in parallel on a cluster (something like distcc) and things like that would really benefit FPGA industry. The area is full of research problems, but only Xilinx progarammers and a few other companies are allowed to do research in this area and try their ideas. Well, some file formats are open (xdl/ncd files), but you have to reimplement everything from scratch.