If your team is new to the hardware and manufacturing sectors, it’s essential to diligently research what’s in store before moving from the drawing board to development.

By contrast, hardware is a physical structure and its physicality is crucial. While the hardware's design might be represented as data, in some cases even as a program, the design is not the hardware.

Tech New DARPA program seeks cybersecurity through hardware design Pentagon scientists say they could stop 40 percent of current cyberattacks by producing secure computer chips.