Digital hardware design typically is done using a specialized language, called a hardware description language (HDL). This approach is based on the idea that hardware design has unique requirements.

This is the prototype board for [Travis Goodspeed’s] new USB development tool called the Facedancer. He took on the design with USB security exploits in mind, but we think it’s got a lot of potential ...

Researchers from the National University of Defense Technology (NUDT) in Changsha have introduced a first-of-its-kind framework, PyABV, that seamlessly integrates assertion-based verification into the ...

In our “hardware development gets serious” news, we’ve recently learned about AllSpice, a startup building hardware development collaboration infrastructure for companies. Hardware developers are ...

Hardware development rewards humility, discipline and clear thinking. The lessons above are rarely learned quickly, and never cheaply. But teams that internalize them gain something powerful: the ...