Hacker News with Generative AI: Hardware Design

Game Boy Advance Architecture – A Practical Analysis (copetti.org)
The internal design of the Game Boy Advance is quite impressive for a portable console that runs on two AA batteries.
Hardware Design, Gaming, Retro Gaming, Portable Consoles
72 points by chw9e 20 days ago | 7 comments
Proper decoupling capacitor practices, and why you should leave 100nF behind (wordpress.com)
Ever wondered why 100nF is a go-to value for decoupling capacitors? This number has pervaded in datasheets and electronics advice going back to the 1980s, and is still widely present in the datasheets of modern components. Folks are out there sprinkling 100nF capacitors on their boards like seasoning, and when they decide 100nF isn’t enough, they inevitably recommend the big/little practice, e.g. 1uF + 100nF in parallel.
Electronics, Capacitors, Hardware Design, Engineering
226 points by zdw 65 days ago | 79 comments
7 Years Later: Why and How to Make Portable Open Hardware Computers (Relive) [video] (media.ccc.de)
After more than 7 years, a small team of hackers and designers in Berlin are about to release the third generation of their Open Hardware laptop family: MNT Reform Next. Here, Lukas "minute" Hartmann will discuss why we need Open Hardware computers, what we learned through trial, error and hardship of designing and hand-assembling over 1000 of them by hand, and how you can claw back some autonomy over your hardware from Big Computer.
Open Hardware, Hardware Design, Technology, Community, Laptops
31 points by doener 94 days ago | 3 comments
Apple stuck the Mac mini power button on the bottom (appleinsider.com)
Don't expect to fit the new M4 Mac mini into too tight a space because you're going to have to tip it to reach underneath every time you need to switch it on.
Hardware Design, Apple, Mac Mini
36 points by croes 154 days ago | 58 comments
Apple put the Magic Mouse's charging port on the bottom, again (theverge.com)
Apple’s new USB-C-equipped Magic Mouse somehow still has the charging port on the bottom.
Apple, Hardware Design, Consumer Tech, User Experience
6 points by redbell 154 days ago | 4 comments
Apple put the Magic Mouse's charging port on the bottom again (theverge.com)
Apple’s new USB-C-equipped Magic Mouse somehow still has the charging port on the bottom.
Apple, Magic Mouse, Hardware Design, Technology
14 points by miles 155 days ago | 17 comments
Automated feature testing of Verilog parsers using fuzzing (wordpress.com)
I’m delighted that Quentin Corradi, a PhD student I jointly supervise with George Constantinides, will be presenting his work to improve the reliability of hardware design tools next week at the FUZZING’24 workshop, a satellite event of the ISSTA conference.
Hardware Design, Software Testing, Fuzzing
15 points by matt_d 204 days ago | 2 comments
Verilog Copilot that pulls from pre-verified libraries [video] (youtube.com)
Hardware Design, Verilog, AI, Tools, Video
13 points by sathvikr 242 days ago | 7 comments
Understanding the design of the the Super Nintendo video system (fabiensanglard.net)
Retro Gaming, Hardware Design, Super Nintendo
273 points by guiambros 247 days ago | 87 comments