The upcoming November/December issue of Electronic Design wraps up over 70 years of regular print and then PDF versions of our issues, which subscribers have been reading over all these years. Our 75th anniversary will be in 2027.
Electronic Design has had an online digital focus for a long time. We have more articles than would fit into the print issues since I started with Electronic Design in 2000. We picked the best to go into the print edition and lately the PDF version. Physical print issues went away a while ago. It’s just too expensive to print and ship these days, and most readers are using our website already. The number of readers has always been higher due to our limited subscription base.
Finding New Content on Electronic Design
As with most publications, we have a host of Electronic Design newsletters that provide regular notification of new articles. Those interested in similar functionality to our PDF issues should check out our Top Stories of the Week. These are collections of the articles we have on the website for the week just in case you miss one, or if you prefer to scan the list rather than receiving a newsletter. Of course, you can do both as the newsletters tend to be a targeted subset for topics like power or automotive.
Top Stories of the Week is handy, but it only groups things by date. So, what we’ve been doing over the last few years is building our curated TechXchanges. These focus on a topic and incorporate new articles as they arrive, as well as collect evergreen content that Electronic Design’s editors have chosen as useful for the topic.
TechXchanges are more focused than our technology channels like Analog and AI/ML. These list all the articles for the topic with the most recent ones residing at the top, but the subject matter is typicall very broad.
One example is the Engineer's Guide Oscilloscope Techniques (see figure). This is actually an overarching TechXchange that groups more detailed subcategories into their own separate TechXchanges, like Choosing an Oscilloscope and What's the Difference: Oscilloscopes. You can also leave suggestions for additional articles as we continue to update the TechXchanges with new content as it arrives.
More Feedback and Research Reports
Many of you are probably familiar with our Annual Salary Survey and our Quick Polls. These have provided us with your insights, which was not possible with our print issues.
Our latest, “Is Mixing AI with Software Tools and Development a Good Idea?,” includes a survey that we hope you will take. It will provide us with more insight into how everyone is using artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) in the design cycle rather than embedding it into a product.
We’re looking forward to our 75th anniversary and providing readers with the latest articles, podcasts, and videos on existing and emerging topics relevant to Electronic Design engineers, programmers and managers.
