When you're setting your hardware design out using automated tools is essential, but what if the tools themselves have bugs in them? John P Wickerson is based at Imperial College London.
The paper that John's team wrote about the work: https://johnwickerson.github.io/papers/fuzzing_pnr.pdf
An accessible blogpost John wrote about the work: https://johnwickerson.wordpress.com/2026/01/06/finding-bugs-in-fpga-place-and-route-tools/
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