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Re:FPGA: Why So Few Open Source Drivers for Open Hardware? by TD-Linux on Thursday June 11, 2020 @02:41PM (#23491998)
I think the article author is mixing up HLS tools and HDLs. HLS tools convert some subset of C to a hardware implementation, and thought that Chisel/SpinalHDL were converting Scala to hardware. But they are really just HDLs implemented as a DSL within Scala, much like Migen uses Python but does not execute Python code on the FPGA.
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Re:FPGA: Why So Few Open Source Drivers for Open Hardware? by mupuf on Thursday June 11, 2020 @03:33PM (#23492526)
Yeah, I definitely jumbled both in the same basket. I should rename that into "higher-level languages" and introduce both HLS and HDL there.

Thanks for the feedback, I'll make some changes to clarify my thoughts!

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