Spade is a new open source hardware descriptionlanguage (HDL) designed to increase developer productivitywithout sacrificing the low-level control offered by HDLs. Itis a standalone language which takes inspiration from modernsoftware languages, and adds useful abstractions for commonhardware constructs. It also comes with a convenient set of tool-ing, such as a helpful compiler, a build system with dependencymanagement, tools for debugging, and editor integration.