[IshKebab]

> Floorplanning/placement/synthesis is a billion dollar industry

Maybe all together, but I don't think automatic placement algorithms are a billion dollar industry. There's so much more to it than that.

[Drunk_Engineer]

Yes in combination. Customers generally buy these tools as a package deal. If the placer/floorplanner blows everything else out of the water, then a CAD vendor can upsell a lot of related tools.