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.

In September 2011, researchers at the CERN research labs in Geneva, Switzerland revealed neutrinos sent from Geneva to detectors in Gran Sasso, Italy might have traveled faster than light. Now, though, the 60-nanosecond discrepancy between the arrival of the neutrinos and the speed of light might come down to faulty timing. So how to do know what time it really is?

We see increasing demands for high security in everything from consumer devices that handle financial information through to smart-grid electricity meters and set-top boxes that store proprietary entertainment files and programs. Even basic devices that update firmware remotely require secure communications.