Avnet Silica has a Distributor of the Year award from Nordic Semiconductor, the low power wireless communication chipset supplier. “Nordic Semiconductor is a leader in ultra-low-power short-range wireless communications and especially Bluetooth low energy and Bluetooth 5, which are important technologies in many industrial market applications and new designs,” said Laurence Dellicott, director supplier management …

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The biggest story in the world today has nothing to do with Brexit, Boris’ squeeze or the next financial collapse – it’s all about who will back down first Xi or DT? Now DT’s bite is turning out a lot less fearful than his bark. When he pulled out the big one on the EU – …

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The latest in the series from the team behind OEMSecrets, which powers our EW-Compare component price comparison system, considers power supplies and parts from Weidmüller and Traco Power. Power supply design has always been a bit of a topic – long-term followers of the OEMsecrets article series know that repairing TMI usually starts out with power supply …

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There was once a ball bearing company – the biggest miniature ball bearing company in the world – which decided that DRAMs were very like ball bearings. So it set up a highly automated DRAM fab. So successful was the fab in the efficient production of DRAM that, five years after it had pulled out …

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ST and Biricha Digital Power have developed a workshop to show power-supply engineers why – and how – to quickly move to a digital implementation. The workshop, aimed at analogue PSU (Power Supply Unit) designers and embedded-system engineers who need to build high-performance, stable digital power supplies and Digital PFCs (Power Factor Corrections), will be …

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A  white paper from Plextek RFI reviews some recent MMIC designs that demonstrate how highly accurate MMIC performance predictions can be achieved. Close agreement between measured and modelled performance is exhibited across a wide range of circuit functions, operational frequencies and process nodes, and all designs were first pass successes. Insight is also given into …

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The AWS Deep Learning AMIs  for Ubuntu  and Amazon Linux  now come with newer versions of Chainer 4.4  and Theano 1.0.2 . As with rest of the frameworks, Deep Learning AMIs offers optimized builds of Chainer 4.4 and Theano 1.0.2 that are fine-tuned and fully-configured for high performance deep learning on Amazon EC2 CPU and GPU instances. Deep Learning AMIs automatically deploy the framework builds optimized for the EC2 instance you select when you activate the framework’s virtual environment  for the first time.

AWS CloudHSM customers can now safely delete their CloudHSM backups on-demand, through the AWS SDK and CLI. Backups marked for deletion are held in escrow for a period of 7 days, giving customers a chance to restore their critical key data before it is permanently deleted. Calls to delete and restore backups are recorded in CloudTrail. This feature is available in all CloudHSM regions.

AWS Systems Manager Session Manager is a new interactive shell and CLI that helps to provide secure, access-controlled, and audited Windows and Linux EC2 instance management. Session Manager removes the need to open inbound ports, manage SSH keys, or use bastion hosts.

You can now develop your AWS Lambda functions in PowerShell Core 6.0 using the .NET Core 2.1 runtime. As a PowerShell developer, you can manage your AWS resources and craft rich automation scripts from within the PowerShell environment using AWS Lambda.