Egil, ARM’s next Mali video processor due later in the year, has been designed to optimise performance between the various IP blocks through use of bandwidth saving technologies such as ARM Frame Buffer Compression (AFBC), writes ARM’s Roger Barker. AFBC can be implemented across the entire range of multimedia IP within an SoC and, depending …

Egil about to land

Sam Foster describes the best way to use a power analyser to characterise inrush currents and properly size fuses. In the development of different technologies, many engineers encounter and have to deal with inrush currents to their devices. 

The reality of inrush current and the meaning of an I2t measurement will be discussed. Also, an …

Power analyser – Make sure you don’t blow it

NXP has had its sale of its RF Power unit to Jianguang Asset Manangement (JAC Capital) from the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS). The divesture of the RF Power business was a condition for NXP’s merger with Freescale Semiconductor. Earlier this week NXP and JAC Capital announced they had agreed the …

NXP gets regulatory approval for RF Power sale

LED lighting in grocery cases can degrade milk, according to researchers in Cornell’s Department of Food Science, with exposure times as short as four hours impacting product quality.

We are pleased to announce that we’ve added a new edge location in New Delhi, India for Amazon CloudFront and Amazon Route 53.  The New Delhi location is our third edge location in India (joining Mumbai and Chennai), and brings the total number of worldwide edge locations to 56. 

In December, AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) released service last accessed data , which shows the time when an IAM entity (a user, group, or role) last accessed an AWS service. This provided a powerful tool to help you grant least-privilege permissions. Starting today, it’s easier to identify where permissions can be reduced based on additional service last accessed data. With this release, you have access to the following for IAM entities and policies:

AWS Config Rules is a set of governance capabilities that allow IT Administrators to define guidelines for provisioning and configuring AWS resources and then continuously monitor compliance with those guidelines. You can choose from a collection of AWS managed rules, which are predefined, customizable rules that are based on common best practices. AWS Config now offers a new managed rule that checks Amazon EC2 instances for a specified tenancy (host, dedicated or default). You can provide an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) ID to check EC2 instances launched only from that AMI and also specify an EC2 Dedicated Host ID to check whether your EC2 instances are launched on that EC2 dedicated host. This rule enables you to assess compliance with your server-bound software licenses by checking whether your EC2 instances are launched on a physical server dedicated to your use.  

Amazon SES can now include the original email headers in the bounce, complaint, and delivery notifications it provides through Amazon SNS. This feature enables you to more easily match a notification to the specific email that triggered it, because the notification can contain the email headers that you used when you passed the email to Amazon SES. Previously, when you wanted to match a notification to a specific sent email, you needed to store a mapping between the email and the message ID that Amazon SES returned when you sent the message. Now, you can add a custom header to the email and then retrieve that custom header from the notification, without storing the message ID on your side. You can include any other custom headers that might be useful to you. For example, resellers can now add client identifiers for improved tracking.

Retrofits to continuously monitor and adaptively control stormwater flows.

Saudi Arabia is to increase the proportion of desalinated water produced by private operators from 16 to 52 per cent by 2020.