 Firepath has its history in Acorn Computers, which, after being renamed to Element 14, was bought by Broadcom in 2000.Wilson was listed in 2011 in "Maximum PC" as number 8 in an article titled "The 15 Most Important Women in Tech History".She was awarded the Fellow Award by the Computer History Museum in California in 2012 "for her work, with Steve Furber, on the BBC Micro computer and the ARM processor architecture."