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Wait hardware has source code? I’m just a web dev so I’m not aware of this. What does the code look like?

• pwg 6y ago
  Yes, there is "source code" for describing hardware. Here are two you can take a look at: VHDL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vhdl https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vhdl Verilog: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verilog https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verilog
• Taniwha 6y ago
  Depends on what you're building, boards tend to be done as net lists (essentially a list of components and wires and how they are connected) - but digital chips of more more than a few dozen gates are normally written in a highlevel language (linked to by other posters here) which can be compiled into both machine code that can be simulated, and synthesised into gates and wires (a net list) that can be laid out onto a chip
• aasasd 6y ago
  I'll tell you more, hardware is often simulated in software from those source descriptions before going to any sort of production. Which is probably one of the reasons for the existence of these definition languages.