TI combines a modified chopper architecture with a proprietary input for an op-amp whose precision extends to common-mode signals anywhere within its power rails.

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There was once a long-serving managing director of a British electrical/electronic combine which made everything from nuclear power stations to consumer goods. The company’s consumer goods were not particularly well thought of, and the then editor of the Sunday Times put his investigatory Insight team onto finding out why toaster which the editor had bought …

Read full article: Fable: The Managing Director Who Annoyed The Prime Minister

FTDI spin-out Bridgetek has raised support for its FT81x Embedded Video Engine (EVE) graphic controllers, by releasing Version 3 of the EVE Screen Designer.

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Predictions are as old and unreliable as the weather but we still persist in them, and one of the more often repeated attempts at prediction has been predicting the stock market. Hitachi brought out a neural net-based computer in the 80s for stock market prediction. It didn’t seem to get widely accepted and it didn’t seem …

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Boris Felgendreher looks at what the consumer electronics supply chain can learn from the world of fashion There are many interesting and surprising  similarities between the consumer electronics and fashion industries. Firstly, both face the problems of seasonality and an increasing pace of change.  Within apparel, the acceleration from two, to twenty collections per year …

Read full article: Fashion world and electronics are unlikely bed-fellows

You can now limit the maximum number of device minutes that your AWS Device Farm test runs can use by setting a timeout on each device. You can also request that your maximum timeout be extended beyond the default of 60 minutes, allowing you to run longer workloads on real Android and iOS devices in the AWS Cloud. If execution exceeds your timeout, execution on that device will be forcibly stopped, and partial results will be available if possible.

This new Quick Start automatically deploys a distributed (clustered) Splunk Enterprise environment on the AWS Cloud in 10-30 minutes.

You can now create Service Catalog Products using YAML-formatted AWS CloudFormation templates (YAML Version 1.1) in addition to JSON-formatted templates. This allows template creators to choose the format they feel most comfortable working in to describe AWS infrastructure. YAML-formatted CloudFormation templates follow the same anatomy as existing JSON-formatted templates.

Amazon WorkSpaces now allows you to integrate with your on-premises Microsoft Active Directory using an interforest trust with the AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory (Enterprise Edition), also called AWS Microsoft AD. By establishing a single interforest trust relationship, you can assign Amazon WorkSpaces for users in any of your on-premises domains. AWS Microsoft AD automatically discovers and routes authentication requests to the correct domain controller, which means that your users can use their existing Microsoft Active Directory credentials to log in to their WorkSpaces, without having to specify their domain name.

You can now attach or replace an AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) role to your existing Amazon EC2 instance. IAM roles enable your applications running on EC2 to use temporary security credentials that AWS creates, distributes, and rotates automatically. Using temporary credentials reduces the risk of long-term key compromise. To enable IAM roles for your existing EC2 instances, follow the example described in the AWS Security Blog post .