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No one else but you can provide you with experience. Hardware has both bugs (defects) and it fails, sometimes in ways not gracefully. An experienced multidisciplinary developer is certain to encounter them at some point. Depending on the discipline this may be a very common occurrence or it may be rare. Devs working at either extremes of scale are more likely to encounter these problems. Defects may go unnoticed due to software workarounds of all things

Here is just one example to get you started: https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2011/08/10/bh-2011-bit-squa...

https://edc.intel.com/content/www/us/en/secure/design/confid...