As a standardized formal language, the SDL has widely been used in the software development. In order to extend its application field, it has been explored to use in hardware design.This paper gives a logical gate circuit-and gate as an example to explain the method of applying SDL to describe and simulate/validate the hardware characters by the SDT tool. The various logic circuits or digital circuits may be made to the SDL packages because the SDL supports the object oriented technology. These packages can be directly invoked in the design of the complex digital system, so it is possible to describe and simulate/validate the complex digital system.The experiment has proved that the application of SDL for hardware design is feasible and rather convenient.