Electronic Design (magazine)

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Electronic Design
Senior Content DirectorWilliam G. Wong [1]
Managing EditorRoger Engelke Jr. [1]
Senior EditorDavid Maliniak [1]
Senior Staff EditorJames Morra [1]
EditorAlix Paultre [1]
Technology EditorAndy Turudic [1]
Former editors
previous_editors
Joe Desposito[ citation needed ]
David Bursky
Roger Allan
Lucinda Mattera
George Rostky
Howard Bierman
Categories Electronics
Trade magazine
FormatPaper magazine and online
FoundedDecember 1952;71 years ago (1952 -12)
CompanyEndeavor Business Media [2]
Country United States
Based in Hasbrouck Heights, New Jersey [3] [4]
Language English
Website electronicdesign.com
ISSN 0013-4872
OCLC 1567748

Electronic Design magazine, founded in 1952, is an electronics and electrical engineering trade magazine and website. [1]

Contents

History

Hayden Publishing Company [5] [6] began publishing the bi-weekly magazine Electronic Design in December 1952, and was later published by InformaUSA, Inc. [7]

In 1986, Verenigde Nederlandse Uitgeverijen, purchased Hayden Publishing Inc. [8]

In June 1988, Verenigde Nederlandse Uitgeverijen, purchased Electronic Design from McGraw-Hill. [9] In July 1989, Penton Media, [10] purchased Electronic Design, then in Hasbrouck, N.J., from Verenigde Nederlandse Uitgeverijen. [9]

In July 2007, Penton Media's OEM electronics publication, EE Product News, merged with Penton Media's "Electronic Design" magazine. EE Product News was founded in 1941, as a monthly publication. [11]

In September 2016, Informa, purchased Penton Media, including Electronic Design. [12]

In November 2019, Endeavor Business Media purchased Electronic Design from Informa. [13] [14] [15]

Content

Sections include Technology Reports (products), Engineering Essentials (new standards), Engineering Features (events), and Embedded in Electronic Design (embedded hardware and software). Design Solutions are contributed by field engineers and Ideas For Design are submitted by readers. Electronic Design also covers components. Techview presents news and products in the categories of Analog & Power, Digital, Electronic design automation, Communications, Test, and Wireless. The magazine covers emerging technologies and large-scale trends. "Understanding Electronic Design and Its Peers". December 2020.

Six "big" issues are published per year. The Technology Forecast issue is published in January. In June, the Megatrends issue describes industry trends. The "Best" issue reviews the year's "best" designs, events and products. "Your Issue" covers topics from the annual reader survey results. "One Powerful Issue" covers Power and "Wireless Everywhere" covers Wireless.[ citation needed ]

Editorial staff include: William Wong, Senior Content Director; James Morra, Senior Editor; Andy Turudic, Technology Editor; Cabe Atwell, Technology Editor; Alix Paultre, Editor-at-Large; and David Maliniak, Senior Editor. "Contacts". April 2024.

Notable contributor

Bob Pease was an electronics engineer and author [16] employed by National Semiconductor Corporation who wrote a monthly column, Pease Porridge, about analog electronics, and answered letters. [17]

Distribution

The publication is free, in print and PDF, for qualified engineers and North American industry managers. [18] It is also available online. [19]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "About Us". Electronic Design. Endeavor Business Media. Archived from the original on March 18, 2021. Retrieved June 26, 2021.
  2. ↑ "Endeavor Business Media". Archived from the original on April 6, 2021. Retrieved June 26, 2021.
  3. ↑ "USB On-The-Go Specification Adds Muscle To Portable Devices". Cypress Semiconductor . August 19, 2013. Archived from the original on November 27, 2017. Retrieved June 26, 2021. Reprinted with permission from Electronic Design, June 10, 2002. Copyright 2002, Penton Media Inc. 611 Route 46 West, Hasbrouck Heights, NJ 07604, USA
  4. ↑ Desposito, Joe (December 28, 2011). "WTC Unbuilding—Still Compelling Reading 10 Years Later". Electronic Design. Archived from the original on June 26, 2021. Retrieved June 26, 2021. The answer is that I was sitting at my office desk at Penton Media in Hasbrouck Heights, N. J., when I got a call from my wife at around 9:00 am telling me that a plane had crashed into the World Trade Center.
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  7. ↑ Electronic Design. Description: Technical design-engineering biweekly magazine initially published in Dec 1952 by Hayden Publishing Company offering independent, comprehensive coverage of the electronics industry's products, markets and technologies. Incomplete run, extent uncertain. Publication continues by InformaUSA, Inc.{{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)
  8. ↑ "Sale By McGraw-Hill". The New York Times . March 22, 1988. Archived from the original on November 15, 2017. Retrieved June 26, 2021. A Dutch publisher, Verenigd Bezit VNU said today that its subsidiary, VNU Business Publications Inc. had purchased a McGraw-Hill Inc. magazine, Electronics, for an undisclosed sum. Electronics, aimed at management in the electronics industry, employs 35 people and has a circulation of 135,000. VNU said the magazine was a better fit in its organization than in McGraw-Hill's. VNU Business Publications is the new name for Hayden Publishing Inc., which VNU acquired in 1986.
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