Hardware abstraction

Hardware abstraction - set of software routines that emulate platform-specific details, giving programs direct access to hardware resources in a device-independent, high performance manner. Article "Hardware abstraction" in English Wikipedia has 26.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 9 references and 8 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that language version.

Since the creation of article "Hardware abstraction", its content was written by 138 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 509 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 321 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1971 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #12917 in November 2004
• Global: #11585 in January 2010

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #82389 in June 2008
• Global: #82769 in October 2009

There are 19 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Hardware abstraction		26.789
2	French (fr) Couche d'abstraction matérielle		24.9131
3	German (de) Hardwareabstraktionsschicht		24.4428
4	Ukrainian (uk) Шар апаратних абстракцій		22.5135
5	Catalan (ca) Capa d'abstracció de maquinari		18.4549
6	Persian (fa) لایه انتزاعی سخت‌افزاری		16.9718
7	Polish (pl) Warstwa abstrakcji sprzętowej		11.1601
8	Russian (ru) Слой аппаратных абстракций		9.8492
9	Japanese (ja) Hardware Abstraction Layer		9.536
10	Spanish (es) Capa de abstracción de hardware		9.4415

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Hardware abstraction" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Hardware abstraction		1 135 113
2	German (de) Hardwareabstraktionsschicht		192 912
3	Russian (ru) Слой аппаратных абстракций		179 634
4	Japanese (ja) Hardware Abstraction Layer		126 926
5	French (fr) Couche d'abstraction matérielle		120 938
6	Chinese (zh) 硬體抽象層		108 584
7	Spanish (es) Capa de abstracción de hardware		107 473
8	Polish (pl) Warstwa abstrakcji sprzętowej		54 281
9	Korean (ko) 하드웨어 추상화		50 388
10	Italian (it) Hardware abstraction layer		50 224

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Hardware abstraction" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Hardware abstraction		3 828
2	Chinese (zh) 硬體抽象層		411
3	Russian (ru) Слой аппаратных абстракций		375
4	German (de) Hardwareabstraktionsschicht		254
5	Japanese (ja) Hardware Abstraction Layer		225
6	French (fr) Couche d'abstraction matérielle		191
7	Spanish (es) Capa de abstracción de hardware		103
8	Italian (it) Hardware abstraction layer		73
9	Indonesian (id) Lapisan abstraksi perangkat keras		68
10	Korean (ko) 하드웨어 추상화		57

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Hardware abstraction" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Hardware abstraction		138
2	German (de) Hardwareabstraktionsschicht		65
3	French (fr) Couche d'abstraction matérielle		49
4	Italian (it) Hardware abstraction layer		45
5	Russian (ru) Слой аппаратных абстракций		45
6	Polish (pl) Warstwa abstrakcji sprzętowej		26
7	Chinese (zh) 硬體抽象層		23
8	Japanese (ja) Hardware Abstraction Layer		21
9	Spanish (es) Capa de abstracción de hardware		16
10	Korean (ko) 하드웨어 추상화		14

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Hardware abstraction" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Catalan (ca) Capa d'abstracció de maquinari		0
2	Czech (cs) Hardware abstraction layer		0
3	German (de) Hardwareabstraktionsschicht		0
4	English (en) Hardware abstraction		0
5	Spanish (es) Capa de abstracción de hardware		0
6	Persian (fa) لایه انتزاعی سخت‌افزاری		0
7	French (fr) Couche d'abstraction matérielle		0
8	Indonesian (id) Lapisan abstraksi perangkat keras		0
9	Italian (it) Hardware abstraction layer		0
10	Japanese (ja) Hardware Abstraction Layer		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Hardware abstraction" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Hardware abstraction		321
2	Russian (ru) Слой аппаратных абстракций		283
3	Japanese (ja) Hardware Abstraction Layer		266
4	Persian (fa) لایه انتزاعی سخت‌افزاری		265
5	Catalan (ca) Capa d'abstracció de maquinari		183
6	Chinese (zh) 硬體抽象層		116
7	Korean (ko) 하드웨어 추상화		108
8	Portuguese (pt) Camada de abstração de hardware		75
9	French (fr) Couche d'abstraction matérielle		72
10	Ukrainian (uk) Шар апаратних абстракцій		64

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#	Language	Value
ca	Catalan Capa d'abstracció de maquinari
cs	Czech Hardware abstraction layer
de	German Hardwareabstraktionsschicht
en	English Hardware abstraction
es	Spanish Capa de abstracción de hardware
fa	Persian لایه انتزاعی سخت‌افزاری
fr	French Couche d'abstraction matérielle
id	Indonesian Lapisan abstraksi perangkat keras
it	Italian Hardware abstraction layer
ja	Japanese Hardware Abstraction Layer
ko	Korean 하드웨어 추상화
nl	Dutch Hardware Abstraction Layer
pl	Polish Warstwa abstrakcji sprzętowej
pt	Portuguese Camada de abstração de hardware
ru	Russian Слой аппаратных абстракций
sv	Swedish Hardware Abstraction Layer
tr	Turkish HAL
uk	Ukrainian Шар апаратних абстракцій
zh	Chinese 硬體抽象層

Best Rank

English: #82389 06.2008

Global: #82769 10.2009

Best Rank

English: #12917 11.2004

Global: #11585 01.2010

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