Then and Now

There is no precision without feedback, and these early tools are among those that helped engineers optimize their creations.

We visit the largest collection of Patek Philippe electronic clocks ever assembled for public viewing, in New York City.

From the early CRT-based tools to the latest multifunctional powerhouses, the venerable oscilloscope has long been a mainstay of electronic design.

Open Robotics' Katherine Scott looks at robot development, from her entry into the industry to what's happening now in robotics.

A plethora of communication options have emerged over the last seven decades, from parallel buses to LPWANs.

Then and now: From mainframes to MPUs, processor technology has progressed significantly since Electronic Design was first published.

Electronic Design’s Embedded Revolution survey reinforced the view of C and C++ dominance. Get some feedback from those involved in the development of popular embedded programming...

Over the past decade, the UEFI Forum has modernized the booting process by standardizing an interface that simplifies and secures platform initialization.

Obstacles continue to impede success in fully automating the PCB routing process.

Ada has evolved over the years taking in the latest programming ideas from object oriented programming to contract-based programming.

FORTRAN has progress since its inception at IBM in 1957.

The transistor was 18 years old in 1975, the year Solid-State Power Conversion (the forerunner of Power Electronics Technology) was founded.