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randrews9on Hyundai’s Ioniq 6 EV makes its US debut

The n vision 74 is particularly striking: https://www.hyundai-n.com/en/models/rolling-lab/n-vision-74....

randrews9on Hyundai’s Ioniq 6 EV makes its US debut

This doesn't feel like a complete assessment of the risk. Truck rollover risk is higher. Additionally, your risk of having a tragic collision with a pedestrian, which you would need to live with, is significantly higher.

randrews9on Xilinx Opens Up Vitis HLS Tool for FPGAs

See somewhat recent thread on xls:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24354083

randrews9on Xilinx Opens Up Vitis HLS Tool for FPGAs

Totally agree. Certain signal processing pipelines that FPGAs are often targeted at map very well to HLS, often with 10x or more code reduction. Production SoCs sometimes use similar tech for less power/performance critical blocks. Mentor graphics catapult HLS marketing material contains some note that NVENC on the maxwell generation of Nvidia GPUS was coded in HLS.

randrews9on Xilinx Opens Up Vitis HLS Tool for FPGAs

The article mentions its the HLS frontend that was open-sourced, not the backend. I see no evidence of any HDL codegen here at all yet. I'll keep looking though.

The full HLS tool that they ship does produce full verilog/vhdl, and doesn't go to the bitstream level. It would be a huge improvement if they would open-source the whole thing. I suspect they will not, however, as code generator likely has a fairly complex FPGA Fabric/Slice timing model used to schedule operations into clocks, and that is something they would probably consider proprietary. Hopefully they can strip out those bits out and release the rest.