Agile Hardware Project (AHA)
While advances in software tools and frameworks have enabled individuals to create interesting new products in reasonable time frames, hardware designs take large teams multiple years. This disparity in required effort decreases hardware innovation and interest. To address this issue, we must make hardware/software systems easier and more fun to develop, which means that we need to enable a more “agile” hardware development flow, making it possible to quickly and easily modify an existing design and play with the resulting system. To foster this goal of agile hardware design, we initiated the AHA Agile Hardware Project, supported by three strong pillars of funding: ISTC Agile, Intel's Science and Technology Center (ISTC) for Agile HW Design; DARPA/NFS government agencies; and Stanford's own industrial affiliates program. Our research complements and coordinates with similar efforts from partners at UCB Aspire.
For more information see the AHA website.