Interestingly Gmail will let you filter in a dot sensitive way. Anyone missing my dot gets sent to a folder called “wrongguy”. Whenever I drop by to look at it it’s full of spam.
Actually yes - the H stands for hardware: that's any kind of digital logic. You just need a different "back end" and then in theory the same model can run on various targets - in fact there is a whole business model around getting a design up and running on an FPGA and then porting it to an ASIC once you can justify the volume.