Hardware

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​Eero - WiFi router.
​Hardware effects - Demonstration of various hardware effects.
​LiteX - FPGA design/SoC builder that can be used to build cores, create SoCs and full FPGA designs.
​Migen (Milkymist generator) - Python toolbox for building complex digital hardware.
​The future of computing: a conversation with John Hennessy (Google I/O '18)​
​Awesome Firmware Security​
​FindChips (HN) - Get instant insight into any electronic component.
​Hackster - World's largest network for hardware & software developers.
​The Essential Guide To Electronics in Shenzhen (2016) (HN)
​Adventures in reinventing interfaces / Suz Hinton (2019)​
​Learning hardware programming as a software engineer (2019) (HN)
​My Business Card Runs Linux (2019) (HN)
​nMigen - Refreshed Python toolbox for building complex digital hardware. (HN)
​Glasgow Debug Tool - Tool for exploring digital interfaces. (HN)
​Everything I know about SSDs (2019) - Solid State Devices using NAND Flash, how they differ from Hard Drives, and how they affect file deletion and recovery. (HN)
​CRAY-1 Computer System: Hardware Reference Manual (1977)​
​Cerebras CS-1 - Built from the ground up to accelerate deep learning in the data center.
​MIT 6.004: Computation Structures course (HN)
​Coding for SSDs​
​hackrf - Low cost software radio platform.
​Meshtastic - Open source hiking, pilot, skiing, Signal-App-extending GPS mesh communicator. (Code)
​Awesome Hardware Description Languages​
​Tindie - Buy and Sell DIY hardware products.
​Ventilators 101: What They Do and How They Work (2020)​
​From the Transistor to the Web Browser​
​PID Without a PhD​
​How to flash an LED (2020) (HN)
​Espressif Systems - Semiconductor company.
​LLHD: A Multi-level Intermediate Representation for Hardware Description Languages (2020)​
​LLHD - Low Level Hardware Description — A foundation for building hardware design tools. (Web)
​llhd-sim - LLHD reference simulator.
​moore - Hardware compiler based on LLHD.
​Let’s Make More Calm Technology (2019)​
​Programming Parallel Computers course (2020)​
​Nand to Tetris is a great course (2020) (Reddit)
​HAL - Hardware Analyzer.
​Playstation Architecture: A Practical Analysis (HN)
​Breadbee - Breadboard-able Cortex A7 dev board.
​Repository for Open Source Mouse Firmware and Hardware (HN)
​Hacking Together an E-ink Dashboard (2020) (Lobsters)
​Shoumik's PhD Defense "Interfaces for Efficient Software Composition on Modern Hardware" (2020)​
​Bare Metal in a Cloud Native World (2020)​
​My New Old Apple IIe Computer (2020) (HN)
​Computer Architecture - Introduction (2018)​
​Basics of hardware hacking (Code)
​Building an IBM 3270 terminal controller (2020)​
​Pinebook Pro Six Months In (2020) (Lobsters)
​GoKey - Bare metal Go smart card.
​USB-C is still a mess (2020) (HN)
​Brilliant Hardware in the Valley of the Software Slump (2020) (HN)
​rio - Open source library allowing you to create an internet connected LED wall.
​SkyWater Open Source PDK - Open source process design kit for usage with SkyWater Technology Foundry's 130nm node. (HN)
​The Magnetic Amplifier –– A Lost Technology of the 1950s, anyone can build it (HN)
​Jess Frazelle's gadgets​
​Wireless is a trap (2020) (Lobsters) (HN)
​Domain-Specific Hardware Accelerators (2020) (HN)
​ShinySDR - Software-defined radio receiver application built on GNU Radio with a web-based UI and plugins.
​Hardware Floating Point (2020) (HN)
​Xbox Architecture (HN)
​Build an 8-bit computer from scratch​
​Recommendations for running a rack-mount server at home? (2020)​
​Apple Lightning (2020) (HN)
​Stack Computers: The New Wave (Lobsters)
​Commodore never made an Amiga Workbench smart watch OS, so I did instead (2020) (Lobsters)
​The Free and Open Source Silicon Foundation​
​TinyPilot: Build a KVM Over IP for Under $100 (2020) (Lobsters) (HN)
​Socialism’s DIY Computer (2020) (Lobsters)
​Terminal Server on a Budget (2020) (HN)
​NixOS on ARM/PINE64 Pinebook Pro (Code)
​Hardware interrupts (2020)​
​Setting up a privacy-oriented Home Lab (2020) (Lobsters)
​Home Network Overview (2020)​
​Nintendo DS Architecture (HN)
​Digital Design and Computer Architecture course (2020) (Lectures)
​SAFARI Research Group - Part of the Institute for High Performance Computing Systems in the Department of Computer Science at ETH Zurich. (GitHub)
​Mantis: Reactive Programmable Switches​
​Computer Architecture Takeaways (2020)​
​XLS: Accelerated HW Synthesis - - Aims to enable the rapid development of hardware IP that also runs as efficient host software via "software style" methodology. (Docs)
​Home Lab Beginners guide (2020) (HN)
​Low-level details of the Zen 2 microarchitecture (2020)​
​Instructables - Community for people who like to make things.
​Programmable hardware with Andy Ray (Transcript)
​FuseSoC - Package manager and build abstraction tool for FPGA/ASIC development. (FuseSoC standard core library)
​Chips (Common Hardware for Interfaces, Processors and Systems) Alliance - Develops high-quality, open source hardware designs relevant to silicon devices and FPGAs.
​Insanity 4004 – Experiments with the world's first microprocessor (HN)
​Teensy - Complete USB-based microcontroller development system, in a very small footprint, capable of implementing many types of projects.
​HN: Nvidia to Acquire Arm for $40B (2020)​
​WLED - Control WS2812B and many more types of digital RGB LEDs with an ESP8266 or ESP32 over WiFi.
​The Hardware Lottery (2020)​
​Computers Are Hard: hardware with Greg Kroah-Hartman (2020)​
​Hardware Hacking Experiments - Several ways to extract firmware on embedded devices​
​Ask HN: How to get into the chip industry? (2020)​
​Hardcaml - OCaml library for designing hardware.
​Chisel - Hardware design language that facilitates advanced circuit generation and design reuse for both ASIC and FPGA digital logic designs. (Web) (Chisel Bootcamp) (Chisel Project Template) (HN)
​Chipyard - Agile RISC-V SoC Design Framework with in-order cores, out-of-order cores, accelerators, and more.
​PyMTL - Open-source Python-based hardware generation, simulation, and verification framework with multi-level hardware modeling support.
​Freedom - RTL created by SiFive for its Freedom E300 and U500 platforms.
​Berkeley Architecture Research (Code)
​Running a Unix-like OS on a home-built CPU with a home-built C compiler (2020) (HN)
​The History of the Microprocessor and the Personal Computer (2020)​
​Accelerating Sparse Matrix-Matrix Multiplication with GPU Tensor Cores (2020) (HN)
​USB3: why it's a bit harder than USB2 (2020) (HN)
​PS5 Teardown (2020) (HN)
​Stratix V accelerator card from eBay (2020) (HN)
​Ask HN: What is the best way to learn how to build your own hardware? (2020)​
​Sega Master System Architecture: A Practical Analysis (HN)
​Microfactory 02 | DIY Home Shop, Setting up the Workbench (2020)​
​PC build for deep learning, generative art (Tweet)
​Notes on building a deep learning PC (2020)​
​Microcontroller VGA Interface projects (Lobsters)
​blokdots - Software to build interactive hardware prototypes without writing a line of code. (HN)
​Implementing Machine Learning on Massively Parallel Hardware (2020)​
​Turing Pi 2 - Compact ARM cluster with 32 Gb RAM. (HN) (Docs)
​Home Made Standing Desk Raspberry Pi Controller (2020)​
​AMD - High-Performance Processors and Graphics. (GitHub)
​NVIDIA - Designs graphics processing units.
​Xilinx - Inventor of the FPGA, programmable SoCs. Develops highly flexible and adaptive processing platforms. Owned by AMD. (HN) (GitHub)
​Have you considered buying used hardware? (2020) (Lobsters)
​Framework to understand RDMA​
​Curated list of available fantasy consoles/computers​
​Hardware-as-a-Service (2020) (HN)
​Is a billion-dollar worth of server lying on the ground (2020) (HN)
​Lattice Semiconductor - American manufacturer of high-performance programmable logic devices.
​Transistor 2N2222: all you need to know (2020)​
​Open Source Hardware - Makers and STEM tutorials.
​Chips Alliance - Common Hardware for Interfaces, Processors and Systems. (GitHub)
​Hacker's Hardware Toolkit​
​What is a System-on-Chip (SoC), and why do we care if they are open source? (2020) (HN)
​Advanced System-on-Chip Design Lecture Notes (PDFs) (2016)​
​SpinalHDL - Scala based HDL. Language to describe digital hardware. (GitHub)
​AMD CDNA Architecture White paper (2020)​
​reMarkable - Next-generation paper tablet. (Go CLI) (HN) (HN 2) (Awesome reMarkable)
​Quite the reMarkable Device (2021) (Lobsters)
​Branch Prediction Is Not a Solved Problem: Measurements, Opportunities, and Future Directions (2019)​
​Hardware Debugging for Reverse Engineers (2020)​
​Uniquely Identifying PCBs, Subassemblies, And Packaging (2020)​
​Semiconductors: The Ultimate Bargaining Chip (2020)​
​DIY NAS: 2020 Edition​
​These are called opportunities (2020) (HN)
​ChipWhisperer - Complete open-source toolchain for side-channel power analysis and glitching attacks. (Docs)
​Building a new C64 in 2020​
​A Modern Primer on Processing in Memory (2020)​
​Fast14 Technology: Design Technology for the Automation of Multi-Gigahertz Digital Logic​
​Inside the Apple II (2020)​
​System Bus Radio - Transmits AM radio on computers without radio transmitting hardware. (HN)
​ChampSim - Trace-based simulator for a microarchitecture study.
​Clockwork - Polyhedral Analysis for Hardware Accelerators.
​ACE: Apple Type-C Port Controller Secrets (2020) (HN)
​MyHDL - Design hardware with Python. (Web)
​Morris Chang, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing, Engineering Hero Lecture (2014)​
​Memory-Centric Computing Systems (2020)​
​Tenstorrent - Scalable and Efficient Hardware for Deep Learning.
​AI Chip (ICs and IPs) - List of ICs and IPs for AI, Machine Learning and Deep Learning.
​embedded-hal - Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) for embedded systems.
​The Confusing World of USB (2020) (HN)
​ARM - Architecting a Smarter World. (GitHub)
​HwURLs - Simple hardware news aggregator.
​Anatomy of a CNC Router (2020) - Everything you need to know to design your own CNC router. (HN)
​Bitbanged DVI on the RP2040 Microcontroller​
​Examining a technology sample kit: IBM components from 1948 to 1986 (2021)​
​Principles of Semiconductor Devices​
​Resources to make a smart speaker​
​SparkFun OpenLog - Open Source Hardware Datalogger. (Web)
​Jiga - Faster custom parts for hardware products. (App) (HN)
​Misoc - High performance and small footprint SoC based on Migen.
​A Primer on Analog Computing (2021)​
​Cheap PCB - Better understanding the current status of hardware supply chain. (HN)
​Dumping the Super Game Boy 2 boot ROM (2015)​
​Teardown of a quartz crystal oscillator and the tiny IC inside (2021) (HN)
​GreaseBoss - Real-time system to manage industrial greasing. (HN)
​Building an E-Ink Laptop (HN)
​Seminar in Computer Architecture - ETH Zürich (2021) (Talks)
​Framework Laptop - Upgradeable, repairable, and 100% yours. (Intro) (HN) (Lobsters)
​SparkFun Electronics - Manufactures and sells microcontroller development boards and breakout boards.
​Ask HN: Always on low power home server (2021)​
​I want a computer that I own (2021) (HN)
​DIY Through Hole Plating of PCBs (2017)​
​Cobalt - Collection of common Bluespec interfaces/modules.
​Flexible Internal Representation for RTL (Web)
​LATTE: Languages, Tools, and Techniques for Accelerator Design (Code)
​Capra - Computer Architecture & Programming Abstractions Research Group. (GitHub)
​Calyx - Compiler Infrastructure for Accelerator Generators. (Code)
​Dahlia - Time-sensitive affine types for predictable hardware generation. (Web)
​ESP32-C6, a Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth 5 (LE) SoC (2021) (HN)
​Lobsters: Single board computers? (2021)​
​DIY Split-Flap Display (Web) (HN)
​MANUZOID - Search for Manual Online.
​Why making chips is so hard (2021)​
​The True Cost of Processor Manufacturing: TSMC 7nm (2021)​
​Apples M1 Processor: The hardware behind the hype (2020)​
​Apple Silicon Hardware: SPRR and Guarded Exception Levels (GXF) (2021) (HN)
​Adafruit - Unique & fun DIY electronics and kits.
​DIY Air Quality Sensor​
​What other hobbyist "small devices" are out there other than the RPi? (2021)​
​Fixing Xilinx's Broken AXI-lite Design in VHDL (2021)​
​Oxide Computer - Servers as they should be. (HN) (Lobsters)
​Apple Has a Decade-long Lead in Wearables (2021) (HN)
​AMD Demonstrates Stacked 3D V-Cache Technology: 192 MB at 2 TB/SEC (2021) (HN)
​Denotational hardware design in Agda​
​Zero to ASIC Course - Learn how to make your own computer chips. (YouTube)
​Cores that don’t count (2021) (Tweet) (HN)
​Khadas - Shenzhen based hardware manufacturer.
​Hardware Memory Models (2021)​
​HN: Apple and Intel first to use TSMC 3nm (2021)​
​Qualcomm - Semiconductor company.
​How Capacitive Soil Moisture Sensors Work (2021)​
​Computing Performance on the Horizon (2021) (HN)
​TinyPICO - World’s smallest, fully-featured ESP32 development board.
​Performance Speed Limits (2019) - How fast can it go?
​Building a Curve25519 Hardware Accelerator (2021) (HN)
​Ask HN: Which vintage computers do you find interesting? (2021)​
​Nothing - Technology should fade into the background and feel like nothing.
​How does n-key rollover work? (2021)​
​Pillars - Integrated CGRA design framework.
​Reverse Engineering the M1 (2021) (HN)
​DIY Air Quality Sensor (2021) (Lobsters)
​Cat Printer - Portable thermal printer.
​What scientists must know about hardware to write fast code (2021)​
​Deviceplane - Securely access remote devices and servers.
​It's Time for Operating Systems to Rediscover Hardware (HN)
​Awesome Open Hardware Verification​
​Imagination - Low-power high-performance embedded IP cores.
​Experiments on a $50 DIY air purifier (2020) (HN)
​JeeLabs Projects​
​Caravel - Standard SoC hardness with on chip resources to control and read/write operations from a user-dedicated space. (Docs)
​Efabless.com - Rapid design implementation leveraging an automated digital design flow and full chip template. (GitHub)
​Fault - Complete Open Source Design for Testing (DFT) Solution.
​NVC - VHDL compiler and simulator.
​Crowd Supply - Bring original, useful, respectful hardware to life.
​The Framework is the most exciting laptop I've ever used (2021) (HN)
​The Analog Thing - Open source, educational, low-cost modern analog computer. (HN)
​ChiselVerify - Hardware Verification Library for Chisel.
​Digital Design with Chisel Book​
​Take a look inside Steam Deck (2021) (Lobsters)
​The Insane Innovation of TI Calculator Hobbyists (2021) (HN)
​Mac SE/30 odyssey (2021) (Lobsters)
​Intel, Mobileye, and Smiling Curves (2017) (Tweet)
​Practice Problems for Hardware Engineers (2021) (HN)
​Ask HN: What does one look for in a laptop these days? (2021)​
​Apple’s M1 Pro/Max is the second step in a major change in computing (2021)​
​Architecture of Consoles | A Practical Analysis (Code)
​PlayStation 3 Architecture (HN)
​Tesla Dojo White Paper (2021) - Guide to Tesla’s Configurable Floating Point Formats & Arithmetic. (HN) (Tweet)
​Teenage Engineering Computer-1 mini-ITX Chassis (HN)
​hgdb - Flexible hardware debugging framework. It offers runtime APIs to interact with the simulator.
​A History of Modern 64-bit Computing (2007)​
​Titan M tools - Tools we used in our research on the Google Titan M chip.
​How do hardware timers work? (2021) (Reddit)
​Exploring the Processing-in-Memory Paradigm for Future Computing Systems (Tweet)
​Blacksmith – Rowhammer bit flips on all DRAM devices today despite mitigations (HN)
​80386DX ISA single board microcomputer (HN)
​Ask HN: What’s the best TV to buy? (2021)​
​bazel_rules_hdl - Hardware Description Language (Verilog, VHDL, Chisel, nMigen, etc) with open tools (Yosys, Verilator, OpenROAD, etc) rules for Bazel.
​How to jailbreak an Amazon Echo Dot?​
​What's the best PC gaming setup these days? (2021)​
​Ask HN: Are there any 4K “dumb” televisions? (2021)​
​Scan of the Month - AirPods Evolution​
​Miniature 3456 LED cube​
​Apple Neural Engine Internal: From ML Algorithm to HW Registers (2021) (HN)
​Cello - Genetic circuit design automation.
​Made To Spec: The Coming Age Of Prototyping As A Service (2021)​
​C64 OS: make a Commodore 64 feel fast and useful (HN)
​Braun Audio (Tweet)
​Canon Cat Resources (HN)
​Ten Lessons from Three Generations Shaped Google’s TPUv4i (2021)​
​Agile Hardware Design Course (2022) (Code)
​Ask HN: Resources for “Learning” Manufacturing? (2022)​
​Hardware Acceleration of Sparse and Irregular Tensor Computations of ML Models: A Survey and Insights (2020)​
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