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Re:XLS: Accelerated HW Synthesis by simonw on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @12:33PM (#24354883)
XLS as an acronym for Accelerated HW Synthesis is a bit of a stretch!
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Re:XLS: Accelerated HW Synthesis by high_derivative on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @01:25PM (#24355509)
It's most likely inspired by XLA (Accelerated Linear Algebra) - same creator(s).
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Re:XLS: Accelerated HW Synthesis by dirtypersian on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @12:36PM (#24354936)
I believe it might come from the fact that this process of going from high level programming language to hardware is called "high level synthesis". I think the "X" is meant to make it more generic, i.e. X level synthesis.
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Re:XLS: Accelerated HW Synthesis by simonw on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @12:48PM (#24355077)
That makes sense. Accelerated => XL just about works for me.
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