custom VLSI circuits, or gate arrays, off-the-shelf semiconductors such as logic chips, transistors, or other discrete components. A module may also be implemented in programmable hardware devices such as field programmable gate arrays, programmable array logic, programmable logic devices or the like...
Many “professional” software programs used for data management and similar serious business purposes are written in a native language code, i.e. in something like Cobol, Pascal, Fortran, “C”, “C++” or any of several other programming languages. Typically, these sort of programs run direct...