Top Stories of the Week: Mar. 9-13, 2026

Check out the latest stories, videos, and podcasts from the week of Mar. 9, 2026.

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Featured Content

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WCET analysis is essential for proving multicore real-time systems meet safety-critical deadlines under all operating conditions.
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In celebration of International Women's Day, I did a special drawing to capture the event.
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Metastability can’t be avoided during clock domain crossing. Understanding how a sequential element might enter metastability and the probability of its failure is paramount in...

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Vertical Power: Tackling AI’s Power Demands from Beneath the Board
Infineon gives vertical power delivery a push with a new generation of multiphase power modules that can be tucked underneath server boards and AI accelerator cards.

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It's show time for the industry, and we've got them covered. 

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Stay on top of the technologies and trends in focus at APEC 2026 and hear from industry insiders on the state of the power electronics industry.
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Check out the breaking news, videos, and podcasts at this year's DesignCon show.
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Check out the breaking news, videos, and podcasts coming from this year's Chiplet Summit.
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Check out the latest tech at this year's CES from behind the scenes.

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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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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This bioresorbable standard-size pill can be interrogated via RFID to confirm it has been taken by the patient.
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Silicon Valley’s electronics flea market, which is revving up soon once again, is a fun social destination for engineers seeking bargains. Paul Rako recounts his last visit to...

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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By allowing robots to perceive and engage with their surroundings like humans, Spatial AI is increasingly becoming an essential tool in a wide range of industries.
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Precision frequency control and timing are essential to all modern electronics technology.
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Multimegahertz buck converters require higher-frequency operation than silicon power transistors can provide. To meet this need, gallium nitride (GaN) power transistors enable...
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With a good company, you’re buying much more than the chip. You’re also obtaining the confidence that the chip was in good hands, because it’s usually designed by experts in the...
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Learn more about the single monitoring unit (SMU) from LEM and how it could facilitate higher-accuracy, intelligent battery management in EVs.
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From spacecraft engineers to open-source rebels, these innovative women are changing the face of what engineering looks like, one bold idea at a time.

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.

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William G. Wong

Senior Content Director - Electronic Design and Microwaves & RF

I am Editor of Electronic Design focusing on embedded, software, and systems. As Senior Content Director, I also manage Microwaves & RF and I work with a great team of editors to provide engineers, programmers, developers and technical managers with interesting and useful articles and videos on a regular basis. Check out our free newsletters to see the latest content.

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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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