I've thought about it and I don't think hardware design can map to software. Hardware is all about individual blackbox components. Take some bits on the left,

I've thought about it and I don't think hardware design can map to software. Hardware is all about individual blackbox components. Take some bits on the left, give some bits on the right. Chain an infinite amount of components. It's "easy" to layout and analyze as a linear flow. Software is not a linear flow with defined states. How to represent a syscall or an IO? The minimal state of an application is its entire memory.