Regarding non-academic entrants

[codepilot]

I am not currently associated with any academic institution, may I enter?

I use Vivado and RapidWright in my daily work.

[clavin-xlnx]

I am not currently associated with any academic institution, may I enter?

Sure! Being a student/academic is not a requirement.

I use Vivado and RapidWright in my daily work.

That's great! We'd love to hear more about what you use it for!

[codepilot]

Thanks, I sent an email to enter.

I use https://www.bittware.com/fpga/xup-p3r/ boards for cloud services, see https://reports.tolly.com/publications/221141.

I have patents in the field, https://patents.google.com/?inventor=daniel+kluss

I am using RapidWright specifically because routing times for vu9p are really long. I greatly appreciate the efforts to bring them down with this contest.