That probably varies from country to country or even university to university, but we did quite a bit of hardware stuff - from simple 7400 series stuff and op-a

That probably varies from country to country or even university to university, but we did quite a bit of hardware stuff - from simple 7400 series stuff and op-amps, over PALs and CPLDs to simple processors on FPGAs and dimensioning circuits for ASIC fabrication processes.