Plessey and Mouser have inked a distribution deal for Plessey’s ORION beam forming module.

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Avnet Silica is selling a KNX communication stack for Infineon’s XMC microcontrollers which are designed for use in home and building automation systems. The communication protocol stack for the KNX standard is implemented in firmware. Designed to run on XMC industrial microcontrollers, the KNX Stack NGS, developed by Weinzierl Engineering, is an ISO/IEC14543 approved platform for building automation systems. It …

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The highlights include a laster trip-wire alarm, piano tuition from Google, a plant monitor, DIY iPhone construction and, of course, a fair sprinkle of Arduino and Raspberry Pi throughout…

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Diodes has introduced a pair of dual-channel high and low-side mosfet drivers for applications up to 50V. Called DGD0506 and DGD0507, they will both driver a pair of n-channel mosfets in a half-bridge configuration. “A 50V rating suits a wide range of motor driving requirements, especially brushless DC motors, which are increasingly being used in …

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It might seem out of this world, but space star-ups have pulled in $4 billion in start VC money in the last two years, according to CB Insights. Four years ago, start-up money for space tech was zero. Among those companies backed are:   Activities in space tech include developing rockets and satellites where the …

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Lattice Semiconductor has introduced its first embedded vision development kit for mobile designs that require low power image processing. The low power processing comes from the firm’s ECP5 FPGA, which is combined with an HDMI chip and CrossLink pASSP mobile bridging device. According to Lattice product marketing director, Deepak Boppana, the low power  mobile applications include machine vision, smart surveillance cameras, …

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Thanks to SEMI for this one – the top seven regions for semiconductor capital equipment spending: $bn Taiwan 12.23 Korea 7.69 China. 6.46 Japan.  4.69 USA. 4.49 RoW. 3.55 Europe. 2.18

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Today, AWS made the AWS Directory Service console available in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean languages. The availability of the Directory Service console in five languages—it was already available in English and French—reduces the need to have bilingual staff that can administer Directory Service directories.

AWS EdStart, a program that helps startup educational technology (EdTech) companies build teaching and learning solutions on the AWS Cloud, is now available. The AWS EdStart program helps EdTech startups by providing AWS promotional credits and access to the same scalable technology used by established companies.

AWS Elastic Beanstalk now supports lifecycle management of your application versions on the AWS Management Console. Application version lifecycle management allows you to auto-delete the undeployed application versions based on application version count or application version age. Previously, you could only configure application version lifecycle policy through the APIs, SDKs, EB CLI, and AWS CLI. Now, you can set the lifecycle settings through the AWS Management Console.