Richard Newell serves as senior principal product architect at Microsemi and plays a key role in planning the security features for the current and future generations of flash-based FPGAs and SoC FPGAs. Richard has an electrical engineering background with experience in analog and digital signal processing, cryptography, control systems, inertial sensors and systems, and FPGAs. He is an alumnus of the University of Iowa. Richard is the recipient of approximately one dozen U.S. patents, and is a member of the Tau Beta Pi and Eta Kappa Nu honorary engineering societies.