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As safety-critical industries move beyond experimentation and toward production-grade adoption of Rust, 2026 marks a pivotal transition from promise to practical assurance.
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In a large fab, the stakes for security are enormous: Downtime caused by a breach can cost millions of dollars per hour.
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Today’s high-performance voltage supervisors are more than voltage monitors. These components are turning into fully integrated solutions for detecting system faults and random...
Learn more about EMI filtering in rugged, high-density systems with this step-by-step guide to component selection and system integration.

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Here are our latest videos and podcasts.

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Inside Electronics
In this special 100th episode of Inside Electronics, Electronic Design’s editors discuss what’s in store for the industry this coming year, from processing hardware to advances...
MPS highlights how its motor-control ICs can enable smarter, more precise control of brushless DC motors that are multiplying across robotics and other industries.
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The U.S. Supreme Court's recent ruling on a core element of President Trump's tariff strategies has opened the door for thousands of businesses to file for refunds.
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Andy finds himself in the quandary of needing to cover DesignCon in the Bay Area and to cover Engineers Week and thus is forced to resort to desperate measures...AI.

Latest Articles on Electronics History

These articles highlight some of the pivotal points and groundbreaking advances in the rich history of the electronics industry.

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The road to creating a blue LED was long and rough, but in 1993, it burst onto the scene. Learn about the struggles and breakthroughs to find the right recipe.
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During research for a newly opening museum gallery in Germany, historian Ralf Buelow uncovers the origins of the moniker “Silicon Valley."
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The story of the first TV shows how a handful of bold experiments and strange contraptions set the stage for the screens we use today.
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Trace the evolution of PC graphics buses from IBM’s ISA to the current industry-standard PCIe and uncover how these interfaces shaped the rise of modern PCs.
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Explore some of the key discoveries made during the cathode ray tube's history that shaped the current CRT monitor technology we use today, from its beginnings to the latest displays...
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The high-efficiency switching power supply has become a staple ingredient in many of today’s electronic systems. What are its origins and how has it evolved over the decades?

More of This Week's Articles

The Featured Articles above are just some of the content that's new this week on Electronic Design. Check out the rest here.

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The DevSecOps system unifies CI/CD and built-in security scans in one platform so that teams can ship faster with fewer vulnerabilities.
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Independent lab testing of a Donut Lab “Solid-State Battery” cell by Finland’s VTT shows it’s indistinguishable from the NMC cell it may very well be.
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New high-side and galvanically isolated gate drivers from STMicroelectronics bring advanced reliability and protective features to automotive systems.
Learn more about EMI filtering in rugged, high-density systems with this step-by-step guide to component selection and system integration.
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The recent closure of NASA’s largest library was only one of many so-called efficiency measures imposed on America’s national research facilities. Editor Lee Goldberg argues that...
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Delve into the details of vertical power delivery and how it surmounts the limits of traditional lateral power when it comes to supporting secondary power rails.
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TDK said the DC-DC converter is already used in Altera’s Agilex family of FPGAs and AMD’s programmable SoCs, including AI-class processors in its Versal family.
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DesignCon 2026 is running from February 24-26, 2026, at the Santa Clara Convention Center. Andy snuck onto the closed exhibit floor to snap pics as booths were being assembled...
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The move to multi-die integration brings both promise and complexity. Scalable interconnects and automation are emerging as key enablers of future designs.
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EtherCAT’s deterministic, on-the-fly frame processing and flexible topologies make it a strong real-time Ethernet backbone for autonomous mobile robots.
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High-voltage buck controllers, which offer the beauty of a design without the cost and difficulty of using a transformer, enhance power-conversion efficiency and enable high output...
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Sponsored by Texas Instruments: Rapid growth in server power consumption necessitates an effective grid-to-gate strategy.
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Tenstorrent’s TT-QuietBox packs in four Blackhole p150c Tensix Processors.

Editor's Choice: From the Electronic Design Archives

These articles were chosen by the editors at Electronic Design that complement the new articles above. They are included in our regular newsletters.

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LiDAR in autonomous driving
Discover how adaptive-computing technology is extending the capabilities of LiDAR sensors to deliver higher depth resolution and reliability, overcoming challenges in autonomous...
Selecting the right type of intermediate bus converter goes a long way toward optimizing power-distribution performance in data centers and central offices.
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Eco-design, sustainability, and the circular economy may seem new, but recognized standards are already in place to help you meet these important challenges.
NXP’s latest motor-control microcontrollers usher in a new level of performance for automotive/industrial BLDC, PMSM, and other electric motors.
Smaller, lighter weight, smart industrial robots and cobots are reshaping the manufacturing landscape. Here are five of the latest arrivals in this space.
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Part 1 of this series discusses how to build a buck converter using Renesas’ programmable mixed-signal matrix.
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This article discusses which parameters to consider in buck-converter design, the mathematics that should be followed when choosing a transformer, and how these parameters influence...
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Explore practical techniques and architectural strategies for designing robust, visually accurate automotive lighting.
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The shift to hyperscale is rapidly changing the skills and tools needed for consulting engineers to meet the industry’s demands, both today and in the future.
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AI is vying for circuit and embedded-system design jobs, but in 2025, it still requires a seasoned engineer to ride shotgun.

Editor's Picks from Other Websites

We hope you enjoy the articles on Electronic Design, but there's a lot going on and we can't cover everything. In this section, Electronic Design editors highlight articles they found this week that you might be interested in as well.

Bill Wong's Picks of the Week

It's AI and tariffs this week for some different points of view. 

 

 

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I earned a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology and a Masters in Computer Science from Rutgers University. I still do a bit of programming using everything from C and C++ to Rust and Ada/SPARK. I do a bit of PHP programming for Drupal websites. I have posted a few Drupal modules.  

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