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.
- 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)
- 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)
- 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.
- 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)