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.

While the Raspberry Pi has very good support for an I2C bus, a lot of very cool chips – including the in system programmer for just about every ATtiny and ATmega microcontroller – use an SPI bus.

Lots of microcontrollers will accept Python these days, with CircuitPython and MicroPython becoming ever more popular in recent years. However, there’s now a new player in town. Enter PyXL, a project ...

Researchers from the National University of Defense Technology (NUDT) in Changsha have introduced a first-of-its-kind framework, PyABV, that seamlessly integrates assertion-based verification into the ...

Using Python to Automate NI DAQ Hardware. This is the title of a data acquisition webinar Digi-Key will be hosting with NI. Free to attend, it takes place on Thursday, August 23, at 11 a.m., and will ...