The phrase "a hardware version of" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a specific iteration or model of a hardware product that has distinct features or capabilities compared to other versions.
Example: "The new gaming console is a hardware version of the previous model, featuring enhanced graphics and processing power."
Alternatives: "a physical variant of" or "a tangible edition of".
We design and implement both a software and a hardware version of the algorithm, the latter running on a NetFPGA.
We present a hardware version of a modified Akers logic array, where the values stored within the array serve as primary inputs.
Field testing apps in the Canadian market on mobile software platforms is a pretty standard move these days, and this could be a hardware version of that.
You source new sensors from a store that would operate similarly to a hardware version of the Play mobile software marketplace, and theoretically upgrade your phone piecemeal instead of having to buy a brand new one every few years just for a few new highlight features.
While the company has produced a yellow-boxed hardware version of its Google search engine for many years, today it's key products are all software: Google Web Search, Gmail, Android, and Google Docs, while its revenues come predominantly from advertisements.
But if LoveProps' work seems like mere mimicry, one of its two members clarified on Reddit that it's not: "It's not just a replica, it's a redesigned and improved (model and hardware) version of a Daft Punk helmet," said FutureGuyMike, who originally posted the project to the site.
In this paper, we develop an FPGA-based hardware version of the PPI algorithm.
Ms. Forti paced in slow, loose circles, blowing into her hardware version of the molimo horn (an instrument associated with the Mbuti Pygmies) to produce a flutelike warble.
The hardware version of Lucent Sky CLEAR Enterprise Edition can automatically secure Web applications at a rate of up to 200 vulnerabilities per second.
Despite their clear commitment to the hardware version of the Kindle, Amazon continues to make the Kindle apps that run on the iPad and iPhone better.
Further, our proposed hardware version of the PPI algorithm can significantly outperform (in terms of computation time) the original (semisupervised) version of the algorithm, available in commercial software, a (fully automatic) approximation of the algorithm, and a recently developed FPGA implementation developed for a Xilinx Virtex-II XC2V6000-6 FPGA.
