It’s easy to become numb to stories about hackers and data breaches. But I got the wakeup call everybody dreads.

Make all clocks and asynchronous resets come from chip pins during scan mode. Ensure that all scan elements on a scan chain are in the same clock domain. Know the requirements and limitations of your ...

When the IBM PC was new, I served as the president of the San Francisco PC User Group for three years. That’s how I met PCMag’s editorial team, who brought me on board in 1986. In the years since that ...