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) (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.