DLX

The DLX (pronounced "Deluxe") is a RISC processor architecture designed by John L. Hennessy and David A. Patterson, the principal designers of the Stanford MIPS and the Berkeley RISC designs (respectively), the two benchmark examples of RISC design (named after the Berkeley design).

The DLX is essentially a cleaned up (and modernized) simplified MIPS CPU. The DLX has a simple 32-bit load/store architecture, somewhat unlike the modern MIPS CPU. As the DLX was intended primarily for teaching purposes, the DLX design is widely used in university-level computer architecture courses.

There are two known implementations: ASPIDA and VAMP. ASPIDA project resulted in a core with many nice features: open source, supports Wishbone, asynchronous design, supports multiple ISA's, ASIC proven. VAMP is a DLX-variant that was mathematically verified as part of Verisoft project. It was specified with PVS, implemented in Verilog, and runs on a Xilinx FPGA. A full stack from compiler to kernel to TCP/IP was built on it.

DLX gene family

DLX is a family of homeodomain transcription factors which are related to the Drosophila distal-less (Dll) gene.

Distal-less itself, and its homologues, is involved in limb development in most of the major phyla, including vertebrates — suggesting that it was involved in appendage growth in an early bilaterial ancestor.

The family has been related to a number of developmental features. The family seems to be well preserved across species.

Known members of the family include DLX1 to DLX6. They form two-gene clusters (bigene clusters) with each other. There are DLX1-DLX2, DLX3-DLX4, DLX5-DLX6 clusters in vertebrates. Each of those are linked to a specific Hox gene cluster. In higher fishes, like Zebrafish, there are a couple of additional DLX genes, DLX5 and DLX8. In zebrafish the orthologous genes to vertebrate DLX5-DLX6 are DLX4 and DLX6, which form a bigene cluster in zebrafish. These additional genes are not linked with each other, or any other DLX gene.

DLX4, DLX7, DLX8 and DLX9 are the same gene in vertebrates. They're named differently, because every time the same gene was found, the researchers thought they had found a new gene.

DLX (disambiguation)

DLX may refer to: