Welcome to Electronic Design Weekly

Many, many years ago when I was starting out as an engineer, I would spend lots of time poring over the various magazines and technical publications available to gain insight into what was new, different, and what I might be able to use in my work. At larger organizations, we shared these by tacking up a list of engineers and crossing our names off after we read them, often cover to cover.

It’s been a while since Electronic Design has been in print. Of course, the internet came into play and now artificial intelligence (AI) has been added to the mix, but the need for a good source of technical information hasn’t emerged. Hence our return to regular virtual issues with Electronic Design Weekly.

Collections Instead of Search and Chatbots

Electronic Design Weekly is our answer to the deluge of search engine responses, automatic content feeds, and chatbots. It’s our weekly focus on articles that we’ve posted from technical sources, including our own authors, many of whom are engineers by trade.

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 1^st 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.

You may not find every article in an issue compelling. Hopefully, though, at least one will peak your engineering interest, which is what we’re looking to do. If you can actually find our comment system (we control the content, but not all of the presentation options), you can leave us a note or two on what you like or would like to see more of in the future.

This is the first editorial for the first issue of Electronic Design Weekly. We hope you subscribe to the weekly newsletter that highlights it, or bookmark the landing page where you can always find the latest issue.

As a side note, Electronic Design Weekly is actually a live publication that’s posted at the start of the week. Additional articles are added throughout the week, so you can continue to go back and check out what’s new or what happened during the week.

P.S. My current editorial photo was taken when I started with Electronic Design as a tech editor at the turn of the century. I probably need to update it since the hair is a little grey these days. I just need to take one that doesn’t look like my driver’s license.