During the 2012 Design West conference and exhibition I talked with Frederic Leens, founder of Byte Paradigm, about a new approach to "instrument" and test designs within an FPGA.

Commodore International founder Jack Tramiel died on April 8, 2012. According to his Wall Street Journal obituary, Tramiel (then known as Idek Tramielski) came to the US after WW II as a refugee and learned to service typewriters.