Wolfspeed creates an evaluation board for its 1.7kV SiC mosfet, implementing a 48W power supply.

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Probably the most famous chip ever made was the 555. Hans Camenzind recalled how he designed it. “In 1967 designing repeatable integrated tuned circuits was impossible. I was interviewed by Signetics that year and proposed that they let me try to designe one using a phase-locked loop. “I found the PLL in a 1935 Proceedings …

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You can now easily run deep learning in the cloud at any scale on Ubuntu version 14.04 using the Deep Learning AMI hosted on the AWS Marketplace. In addition to the Amazon Linux version , the 64-bit AMI offers an Ubuntu image designed to provide a stable, secure, and high performance execution environment for deep learning applications running on Amazon EC2. It includes popular deep learning frameworks such as MXNet, Caffe, Tensorflow, Theano, Keras, CNTK, and Torch, as well as packages that enable easy integration with AWS, including launch configuration tools and many popular AWS libraries and tools. It also includes the Anaconda Data Science Platform for Python2 and Python3. The AWS Deep Learning AMI is provided at no additional cost beyond the Amazon EC2 hours used.

To learn more, read the details in the blog post and begin using the Deep Learning AMI for Ubuntu on the AWS Marketplace , today!

Starting today you can provision AWS Step Functions resources using AWS CloudFormation. AWS CloudFormation simplifies provisioning and management on AWS. You can create templates for the service or application architectures you want, and have AWS CloudFormation use those templates for quick and reliable provisioning of the services or applications.

The Amazon Redshift UNLOAD command now supports Amazon S3 server-side encryption using an AWS KMS key. The UNLOAD command unloads the results of a query to one or more files on Amazon S3. You can let Amazon Redshift automatically encrypt your data files using Amazon S3 server-side encryption, or you can specify a symmetric encryption key that you manage. With this release, you can use Amazon S3 server-side encryption with a key managed by AWS KMS. In addition, the COPY command loads Amazon S3 server-side encrypted data files without requiring you to provide the key. For more information, see COPY and UNLOAD in the Amazon Redshift Database Developer Guide.

You can now estimate the age range for each face detected in an image with Amazon Rekognition. Along with other facial attributes and features such as gender or emotion, Amazon Rekognition now provides an age range to the facial analysis APIs. You can use this feature to better assess demographics or group your image collection with age ranges.

This new Quick Start deploys a standardized environment that supports compliance with the U.S. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). The Quick Start was built by AWS solutions architects and compliance experts who have migrated and deployed workloads that are within scope for HIPAA compliance. It supports the technical controls within the 52 statutes of HIPAA Phase 1 and the 180 statutes of HIPAA Phase 2.

The AWS CloudTrail console now allows you to separately add data events and management events logging options, making it easy to customize your CloudTrail configuration. With data events logging, you can record all API actions on Amazon S3 Objects and receive detailed information such as the S3 object level API activity, AWS account of the caller, IAM user role of the caller, time of the API call, IP address of the API, and other details. With management events logging, you can record operations that occur on your AWS accounts and resources, such as administrative actions to create, delete, and modify EC2 instances or IAM activities.

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