spcl/hls_tutorial_examples

This project is a static educational archive originating from the Scalable Parallel Computing Lab (SPCL) at ETH Zurich. While it carries the prestige of a top-tier academic lab, it functions strictly as a tutorial companion rather than a software tool or library. With a velocity of 0.0 and an age of over 8 years, the code is largely legacy, predating significant shifts in the FPGA landscape such as Xilinx's move from Vivado HLS to Vitis and Intel's shift toward oneAPI. The 205 stars reflect historical academic interest rather than active utility. From a competitive standpoint, the primary 'competitors' are official vendor documentation and newer HLS tutorials (e.g., from AMD/Xilinx or Intel Altera), which provide more modern, integrated, and supported examples. There is no technical moat here; the patterns demonstrated (pipelining, unrolling, tiling) are now standard industry knowledge. The platform domination risk is high because the FPGA vendors themselves provide the definitive, updated versions of these examples within their proprietary IDEs.