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Welcome to Electronic Design Weekly
Collections Instead of Search and Chatbots
One thing you will notice is the In This Issue at the top. This is the index to our table of contents which is the rest of the issue. You can quickly jump to a section and check out the latest items from feature stories to multimedia podcast and videos to editors’ picks of articles on other sites. We hope you read ours first but we know you have a wide variety of interests and there is a lot of good content on the web, if you can find it.
You will also want to check out the Illustrated Engineering section that will have regularly appearing art from our editors.
While I tend to write a lot these days, it’s sometimes software-related. My latest dabbling has been with Microsoft’s Power Apps and Power Automate. It’s not something I would recommend, but chatbots and AI do come in handy. The week before I was playing with browser extensions and Javascript. I may get back to working on my robot with Ada and SPARK at some point. In the meantime, you can check out “Demonstrating SPARK with a Mars Rover.”
Electronic Design Weekly is essentially an online newsletter, or issue, instead of a PDF download, although you can obtain many of our articles that way. It includes regular sections, such as editorials like this one, and we may even have a cartoon or two for your reading pleasure.
While we often have some fun like our April 1st articles — April 1st, 2026 @ Electronic Design: Magical Mystery — our normal fare focuses on technical presentations ranging from chiplets and high bandwidth memory (HBM) to edge-computing protocols like Matter, and much more.
Broad vs. Focused Engineering Coverage
One challenge that Electronic Design has always dealt with is its “horizontal publication” stature, meaning we don’t focus on one or two topic areas. We look at the breadth of the electronic design spectrum from analog through AI compute and quantum computing. That’s because not only do we want to make engineers aware of all these technologies, but also show how they work together.
Systems aren’t designed in isolation. In fact, co-design is a hot term these days. It is also an area where AI is helping round the rough edges between technologies, from analog to wireless to thermal design and more. At Electronic Design, we want to make you aware of the tools, technology, challenges, and solutions surrounding a wider range of engineering tasks than what we had to handle in the past.
Helping Spread the Electronic Design Word
No one is sharing print editions of magazines these days (Fig. 1), but sometimes engineers share links to sites that they like and find useful. We hope you consider our site and our online magazine as one you would like to share with other engineers, programmers, and managers in your group.
