Hardware ​

Digital Design and Computer Architecture course, From Nand to Tetris are great.

teenage engineering & Apple make gorgeous and functional devices.

Chisel seems like an amazing framework for hardware designs. So as Flux, Diode & Hardcaml.

Computer Architecture: Quantitative Approach is great book.

AI’s Hardware Problem gives a nice glimpse on what's happening now to accelerate hardware compute.

Chips and Cheese is nice blog.

Notes ​

• The next 20 years in semiconductors will be dominated by insanely large SIMD processors with massive stacked memory and network bandwidth.
• Transistors are voltage or current controlled resistors, depending on the type FET or BJT. They are considered to be switches if the resistance when turned fully ON is low enough for a particular application.

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. (Template)
• 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)
• 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.
• 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 (2021 Lectures) (2020) (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) (Clean Template)
• chisel-circt - Library to compile Chisel circuits using LLVM/MLIR (CIRCT).
• 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) (HN)
• 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) (Awesome)
• 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. (HN)
• 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) (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)
• Nanometer-Scale Ge-Based Adaptable Transistors Providing Programmable Negative Differential Resistance Enabling Multivalued Logic (2021) (Lobsters)
• How I built my own Sega Mega Drive hardware dev kit from scratch (2022)
• Kineto - CPU+GPU Profiling library that provides access to timeline traces and hardware performance counters.
• mmWave radar, you won't see it coming (2022) (HN) (Lobsters)
• Failing to reach DDR4 bandwidth (2022) (HN)
• DRAM Errors in the Wild: A Large-Scale Field Study (2009)
• Creating Camera Lenses with Stereolithography (HN)
• Ask HN: Any piece of hardware that was more of game changer than you expected? (2022)
• A look inside the chips that powered the landmark Polaroid SX-70 instant camera (2022) (HN)
• The Semiconductor Ecosystem Explained (2022) (HN)
• Penkesu Computer - Homebrew Retro-style Laptop. (Web)
• Modified Microphone (2022)
• Ask HN: What books are recommended to learn re semiconductors industry? (2022)
• From Nand to Tetris - Building a Modern Computer From First Principles. (Code)
• Koika - Core Language for Rule-Based Hardware Design.
• Universal Chiplet Interconnect Express UCIe 1.0 Launched (2022) (HN)
• What you must know about Memory, Caches, and Shared Memory (HN)
• Pockit - Tiny, powerful, modular computer. (2022 Demo) (HN)
• SmartKnob - Haptic input knob with software-defined endstops and virtual detents. (HN)
• Oxide at Home: Propolis says Hello (2022) (HN) (Lobsters)
• A brief tour of the PDP-11, the most influential minicomputer of all time (2022) (HN)
• Semiconductors are more than just processors and GPUs (2022) (HN)
• Trusted Firmware - Open Source Secure Software - Trusted Firmware.
• Mac Studio M1 Ultra Teardown (2022) (HN)
• What ASML Has Next After EUV (2022)
• What made the NES so interesting? (2022) (HN)
• PipelineC - C-like hardware description language (HDL) adding high level synthesis(HLS)-like automatic pipelining as a language construct/compiler feature.
• PDL - Hardware Pipeline Description Language.
• LDgraphy - Laser Direct Lithography - Simple Laser Direct Lithography / Laser Direct Imaging for PCB manufacturing.
• Go THDL - Tool for easing the work with hardware description languages.
• SLEIGH Library - SLEIGH is a language used to describe the semantics of instruction sets of general-purpose microprocessors.
• USB-C hubs and my slow descent into madness (2021) (Reddit) (HN)
• Bareflank PAL (Processor/Peripheral Abstraction Layer) - Bareflank Processor Abstraction Layer.
• Can You Do 7nm Chips Without EUV? (2022)
• Using Depdentent and Affine Types for robust FPGA programming
• mxiot - Low-cost hardware prototyping platform to help you explore switching small IoT projects from bare-metal.
• Pcb-rs - Library to easily write software emulated hardware. (HN)
• List of awesome open source hardware tools
• Awesome Open Hardware
• Framework Laptop Mainboard (HN)
• Ask HN: What's the most stable form of digital storage? (2022)
• Awesome Semiconductor Startups
• Omicron - Oxide control plane.
• The X-Ray Tech That Reveals Chip Designs (2022)
• What scientists must know about hardware to write fast code
• The semiconductor bust – still coming? (2022) (HN)
• DuPont and “DuPont” connectors, and how to crimp them properly (2021)
• MEMS: The Second Silicon Revolution? (2022)
• Retro-style Computer with a Modern Core
• Framedeck - Cyberdeck built with the framework mainboard.
• VoCore - Coin-Sized Linux Computer. (HN)
• TSMC vs ASML: Who is the True Semiconductor King? (2022)
• How fast can a 6502 transfer memory (2022)
• The computers are fast, but you don't know it (2022) (HN)
• Big List of ABI Resources
• Designing Billions of Circuits with Code (2022) (HN)
• HDMI Firewall (HN)
• Ask HN: Are there any companies that are doing interesting work in hardware? (2022)
• Awesome Open Source Hardware
• Linear Address Spaces: Unsafe at any speed (2022) (HN) (Lobsters)
• Ask HN: Can competitors catch up to Apple Silicon? (2022)
• DigitalJS - Teaching-focused digital circuit simulator.
• Knox - Framework for formally verifying hardware security modules to be free of hardware, software, and timing side-channel vulnerabilities.
• Building a fast all-SSD NAS (on a budget) (2022)
• Dalorex: A Data-Local Program Execution and Architecture for Memory-bound Applications (2022)
• The Pine Formula (2022) (Lobsters)
• täko ̄: A Polymorphic Cache Hierarchy for General-Purpose Optimization of Data Movement (2022)
• Rift2Core - Based on Chisel3, Rift2Core is a 9-stage, out-of-order, 64-bits RISC-V Core, which supports RV64GC.
• Building a Panel out of e-ink Electronic Shelf Labels (2022)
• Ask HN: Chip startups? (2022)
• Ask HN: Is there a developer laptop that does not suck and is not a Mac in 2022?
• Tesla’s Dojo Microarchitecture (2022) (HN)
• Fundamentals of Semiconductor Fabrication (2003)
• Diode - Build, program, and run hardware projects in the browser. (HN)
• TSMC's Renegade Genius (2022)
• Antmicro - Software-driven tech company developing open and modern industrial edge and cloud AI systems. (Twitter) (GitHub)
• MNT Research GmbH
• Remotery - Real time CPU/GPU profiler hosted in a single C file with a viewer that runs in a web browser.
• BBC Micro inside a PC case (HN)
• DIY out-of-band management: remote power button (2022) (HN)
• The MasPar MP-1 architecture (1990)
• YuzukiTsuru Hardware Open Source
• Chips and Cheese Blog
• What's Different About Next-Gen Transistors (2022)
• SBC-Bench - Simple benchmark for single board computers. (HN)
• PYNQ - Open-source project from Xilinx that makes it easy to design embedded systems with Zynq All Programmable Systems on Chips (APSoCs).
• Wii U Architecture | A Practical Analysis (2022)
• Flux - Better way to make electronic hardware. (Twitter)
• The case for mapping PCIe BARs as device memory on arm64 (2022)
• Dissecting Reolink RLC-810A Hardware: A Detailed View (2022)
• Seeing through hardware counters: A journey to 3x performance increase (2022) (HN)
• Scrutiny - Hard Drive S.M.A.R.T Monitoring, Historical Trends & Real World Failure Thresholds.
• Google's Open Source Hardware Dreams (2022)
• Board-DB - Single Board Computer Database.
• The Chip Letter - Byte sized stories about the history of computing.
• Chip Letter Links No. 9 : RISC-V, Tank Simulation, Unix History, IBM Research, Fred Brooks and more. (2022)
• Nice resources to learn state of art hardware architectures (2022)
• Processor Design: An Introduction (1998) (HN)
• Build List - Directory of on-demand manufacturers for your creative projects. (HN)
• LiteICLink - Small footprint and configurable Inter-Chip communication cores.
• AI’s Hardware Problem (2022)
• Hidden tech of the Nest Thermostat (HN)
• Accelerating Network Functions using Reconfigurable Hardware (2022)
• Making Ethernet transceiver from logic gates (2022) (HN)
• Veryl - Modern Hardware Description Language.
• The Dawn and Dusk of Sun Microsystems (2022)
• The 3-D Transistor Transition (2023)
• Modular Things - Plug and play w/ virtualized hardware.
• A History of Early Microcontrollers, Part 1 (2022 (HN)
• AMD’s Zen 4, Part 3: System Level Stuff, and iGPU (2023) (HN)
• New timepiece for a Classic Mac (2022)
• Ask HN: Where to get help with a hardware idea? (2023)
• HPCToolkit - Integrated suite of tools for measurement and analysis of program performance.
• ZSWatch - Open-source Zephyr-based smartwatch. (HN)
• AirJet - Solid-state chip for active device cooling. (HN)
• CGRA-Flow - Integrated framework for CGRA compilation, exploration, synthesis, and development.
• A Multi-Threaded Fast Hardware Compiler for HDLs (2023)
• Gemmini - Berkeley's Spatial Array Generator.
• SiliWiz (Lessons) (Code)
• Atomic Semi - Sam Zeloof and Jim Keller start a new semiconductor fab. (HN)
• Multi-policy-based annealer to solving real combinatorial optimization problems (2023) (HN)
• Using HDMI radio interference for high-speed data transfer (2023) (HN)
• Embracing Chaos: The Imperfect Art of Semiconductor Manufacturing, Lithography (2023) (HN)
• After four years of SMR storage, here's what we love—and what comes next (2023)
• Building Big Systems with Remote Hardware Teams (2023)
• True 3D is much tougher than 2.5D (2023) (HN)
• A Brief History of Semiconductor Packaging (2023) (HN)
• The Future of the Transistor (2023) (HN)
• TPU v4: An Optically Reconfigurable Supercomputer for Machine Learning with Hardware Support for Embeddings (2023) (HN)
• Ending an Ugly Chapter in Chip Design (2023) (HN)
• The Hardware Lottery
• Ask HN: What is a good book about how computers work? (2023)
• Ask HN: Why is TSMC so competitive in semiconductor fabrication? (2023)
• TSMC Outlines 2nm Plans: N2P Brings Backside Power Delivery in 2026, N2X Added (2023) (HN)
• Why Europe Lost Semiconductors (2023)
• Teenage Engineering TP–7 field recorder (HN)
• Patterns in register map design
• How Do Semiconductors Work? Introduction to SiliWiz
• The tiny corp raised $5.1M (2023) (HN)
• Ask HN: What is a AI chip and how does it work? (2023)
• SUS Language - Hardware Description Language focussed on strong type and temporal safety features.
• Ask HN: Any hardware startups here? (2023)
• Oxide Computer: Docs (HN)
• Rockchip RK3588 chip (Better than Qualcomm)
• Rockchip
• Ask HN: What is the most powerful, fully open, fully programmable computer? (2023)
• PC Builder AI
• What Goes On Inside a Semiconductor Wafer Fab (2023)
• ASML's High-NA and Hyper-NA EUV: An Update (2023)