Links

• ​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.

• ​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.

• ​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.

• ​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)

• ​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)

• ​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)

• ​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​