Get the Fork Outta There: DesignCon’s Exhibits Now Open
What you'll learn:
- DesignCon is taking place at the Santa Clara Convention Center, in Silicon Valley, from February 24-26, 2026.
- Andy is attending the show and will be covering a few of the many technologies and products being revealed or shown.
- “Spy” pics of the booths were taken a day ahead of the exhibition floor opening to give Electronic Design’s readers an idea of who and what will be shown there.
DesignCon 2026 is presently being held at the Santa Clara Convention Center, with the conference running through Thursday, February 26. With 100+ sessions spanning 15 tracks, DesignCon’s conference program covers all aspects of electronic design, including signal and power integrity, high-speed link design, and machine learning. The conference’s exhibition floor features over 200 vendors with the latest in high-speed design tools, technologies, and developments.
Electronic Design snuck in early onto the exhibit hall on February 24, a day before it officially opened. We dodged forklifts and tradespeople to preview the more completed exhibits, staying out of the way as everyone was pressed for time in having everything ready for the following morning. Here’s a little preview of some of what’s to come when DesignCon’s exhibition floor opens on Feb. 25 and 26:
Passes for the exhibits are still available onsite at the $199 registration-laggard rate (listen up for next year, procrastinators — it would have been free a couple of months ago). Conference papers are also being presented Wednesday and Thursday. Get the reading glasses out to plan the day(s) with the following photo of the agenda wall, or just go to the DesignCon website for an easier to read agenda.
Please visit our DesignCon page as we post content from the show on Electronic Design.
The annual Analog Aficionados get-together coincides with it, and is onsite with DesignCon this year, vs. ISSCC. Electronic Design plans to have a few highlights from that event in a week or so.
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About the Author
Andy Turudic
Technology Editor, Electronic Design
Andy Turudic is a Technology Editor for Electronic Design Magazine, primarily covering Analog and Mixed-Signal circuits and devices and also is Editor of ED's bi-weekly Automotive Electronics newsletter.
He holds a Bachelor's in EE from the University of Windsor (Ontario Canada) and has been involved in electronics, semiconductors, and gearhead stuff, for a bit over a half century. Andy also enjoys teaching his engineerlings at Portland Community College as a part-time professor in their EET program.
"AndyT" brings his multidisciplinary engineering experience from companies that include National Semiconductor (now Texas Instruments), Altera (Intel), Agere, Zarlink, TriQuint,(now Qorvo), SW Bell (managing a research team at Bellcore, Bell Labs and Rockwell Science Center), Bell-Northern Research, and Northern Telecom.
After hours, when he's not working on the latest invention to add to his portfolio of 16 issued US patents, or on his DARPA Challenge drone entry, he's lending advice and experience to the electric vehicle conversion community from his mountain lair in the Pacific Northwet[sic].
AndyT's engineering blog, "Nonlinearities," publishes the 1st and 3rd Tuesday of each month. Andy's OpEd may appear at other times, with fair warning given by the Vu meter pic.