IN Electronics & Design has released its Mar/Apr edition, centred on a problem that sits across much of modern electronics: products are expected to keep working while the networks, security requirements, production assumptions, and system architectures around them move.
The edition’s starting point is lifecycle discipline. Electronics products once benefited from relatively stable infrastructure around the design, whether that meant available components, familiar certification routes, predictable communications networks, or a manageable software maintenance model. Longer service lives now meet faster commercial and technical turnover, creating more engineering work after first release.
That is visible in digitised RF systems, where signal integrity is no longer contained by analogue layout, shielding, and cable practice. In satellite ground segment architectures, RF performance is shaped by timing synchronisation, deterministic Ethernet transport, bandwidth planning, buffering, grounding, shielding, and isolation working as one system.
The same lifecycle pressure appears in industrial IoT migration. Replacing legacy 2G or 3G connectivity can reopen antenna design, module selection, firmware behaviour, power management, network acceptance, cybersecurity, and product maintenance decisions. The modem is only the most visible part of the redesign.
Other coverage follows the same thread through custom ASIC specification and packaging, FPGA-based post-quantum cryptography, mechanical testing of populated PCBs, semiconductor-enabled robotics, and the control architecture behind electrified commercial vehicles. The common question is whether the original architecture can carry the product through real operating conditions, changing infrastructure, and long-term support.
The edition is available to read through IN Electronics & Design.
Read the April 2026 edition of IN Electronics here.
