Starting today, Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP provides automatic encryption of data in transit between Nitro-based compute instances and new FSx for ONTAP file systems.
Sensible Continentals
It’s not often that one applauds, the common sense of continentals, while deploring the lack of it in the Brits, but the ECB came up with an example last week. Bitcoin is on an “artificially induced last gasp before the road to irrelevance”, wrote senior ECB staffers Ulrich Bindseil and Jürgen Schaaf, arguing against giving …
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Viewpoint: From BC108 to SiGe BiCMOS – why Analog ICs are great
Ash Madni, WIMMIC’s Technical Director, tells how his lifelong adventure in electronics began with the discovery of the world of Bipolar transistors, namely the BC108… It all started when I was 13 years old at school. A class mate was an Electronics hobbyist and during break, he talked animatedly about what he was going to …
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Farnell adds Multicomp magnetic connectors
Farnell is expanding its line of Multicomp Pro offerings to include Magnetic Connectors. Magnetic cable assemblies and connectors are a growing interconnect option for many low-voltage applications. The Multicomp Pro magnetic cable assembly and connector kits combine spring-loaded pins with magnetic interfaces which offer reliable, self-mating, easily detachable connections. Magnetic connectors are a safe and …
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SkyWater joins MOSIS MPW service
The MOSIS Service of the Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California and SkyWater Technology have combined to enable design-to-manufacturing for IC prototyping and production utilising SkyWater’s CMOS process technologies. The MOSIS Service will provide MPW shuttle access to SkyWater’s S90 and S130 mixed-signal CMOS technologies. The collaboration enables The MOSIS Service to provide customers …
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Digi-Key to match donations for open-source EDA KiCad suite
Digi-Key Electronics has announced that it will match donations made to KiCad, the open-source software EDA suite for Electronic Design Automation. The offer runs from 1-7 December up to a value of $15,000. According to its creators, the goal of KiCad is to provide “the best possible cross-platform electronics design application for professional electronics designers”. …
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HVS gets £30m to develop HGV hydrogen fuel cells
Hydrogen fuel cell specialist HVS of Glasgow has got a £30 million grant from the Advanced Propulsion Centre (APC) programme to develop hydrogen fuel cells for HGVs. HVS is among five companies taking a share of £73 million raised by the UK government and the automobile industry to develop clean transport technology. HVS will receive a £15 …
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ECSN Q3 forecast – “We have normality”
The latest ECSN UK/Ireland electronic components market forecast for 2023 indicates the market is ‘back to normal’ but still subject to geo-political issues as well as relying on management of the grey market and readjusted inventory. Beginning the briefing with a reference to the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Aubrey Dunford, market analyst at ECSN …
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6-18GHz GaAs amplifiers have 10dB gain with positive slopes
CML has announced a pair of 6 – 18GHz GaAs pHEMT gain blocks with positive gain slopes up to 16GHz. CMX90G701 and CMX90G702 have gain-slopes of +1dB and +2dB respectively, and are intended to operate C, X and Ku bands for microwave back-haul, radar, satellite communications and 5G fixed wireless access. “They can also be …
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9kHz to 20GHz eight channel microwave signal generator
Rigol has introduced an eight channel microwave generator that works across 9kHz to 20GHz and can deliver related coherent signals or independent signals. Called DG5208, it is one of the DSG5000 range, which also includes units with 2, 4 or 6 channels, and versions which top-out at 12GHz. If eight channels are still not enough. …
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