Digital hardware design typically is done using a specialized language, called a hardware description language (HDL). This approach is based on the idea that hardware design has unique requirements.

When you think about hardware description languages, you probably think of Verilog or VHDL. There are others, of course, but those are the two elephants in the room. Do we need another one?

Spade is an open-source hardware description language (HDL) developed at Linköping University, Sweden. Other HDLs you might have heard of include Verilog and VHDL. Hardware engineers use HDLs to ...

In an earlier blog, I took it upon myself to declare field programmable analog arrays (FPAAs) a technology that is dead on arrival. In Field Programmable Analog & Gallium Arsenide, I drew a ...