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Synthesis was the killer app in the transition to the RTL design paradigm. It provided a significant increase in design productivity and provided a level of abstraction that was highly suited to standardization and interoperability. When it became clear that a new level of abstraction had become necessary, everyone expected that it would again be synthesis that would be the killer app, but as so often happens – they were wrong. History never really repeats itself. This time it is not the design flow that is the bottleneck in the process, but has been supplanted by two other areas whose needs are much more dire, namely verification and software.