Flex Logix, the two and a half year-old start-up specialising in embedded FPGA cores, completes the design of an IP core for TSMC 16FF+ and 16FFC.

Read full article: Flex Logix completes 16nm eFPGA core design

We were very pleased to announce recently that Tony Fish – co-founder of FabLab London – was joining the selection panel for the EW BrightSparks programme.

Read full article: FabLab London’s Tony Fish looks for EW BrightSparks creativity

Globalfoundries says it has demonstrated 56Gbit/s SerDes performance in silicon on the semiconductor foundry’s 14nm FinFET process. This makes it able to fabricate Asics which will meet the emerging 50Gbit/s industry standards such as OIF CEI-56G-LR and IEEE 802.3cd. The SerDes core, designated FX-14, supports both PAM4 and NRZ signaling, with the capability to equalise over 35dB of …

Read full article: Globalfoundries demoes finfet silicon running at 56Gbit/s

It looks as though the Lattice-China deal is going to get the bum’s rush from the US government. Last week a group of US legislators wrote to the US Committee on Foreign Investment in the US, suggesting that they block the deal. One of the legislators, Congressman Mo Brooks of Alabama, said: “In an alarming …

Read full article: Lattice-China Deal Under US Political Scrutiny

Russian scientists have let two electrons loose in a system of quantum dots to create a quantum computer memory cell of a higher dimension than a quantum bit.

Read full article: Russian researchers make next step to quantum computing

US national security concerns nixed the earlier sale to China, so the Dutch company sells to a New York investment firm for about half the price in breaking LED business news.

Strategies in Light co-chair Bob Steele asks 2017 speaker Brent York of Tangenysys Consulting what opportunities and enhancements spatial tuning will bring to SSL applications and technology.

An SSL projector system can now dynamically bathe both the Canadian Horseshoe Falls and the American Falls in colored light on the Niagara River.

Tags can be used to categorize and track your AWS costs, but depend upon you being diligent about applying tags to your resources and making sure that they are enabled for cost allocation. To reduce this overhead, we are introducing an option to automatically mark your resources with the new Resource Created By tag. This tag includes information related to the resource creator depending on the authentication mechanism used, such as Account ID and IAM role. Even though the Resource Created By tag is specific to the Billing & Cost Management console, it functions exactly like the user-defined cost allocation tags within the Detailed Billing Report, Cost & Usage Report, Cost Explorer, and Budgets products.

The Oracle October 2016 Patch Set Updates (PSU) are now available for Amazon RDS for Oracle. To create a new Oracle “11.2.0.4.v10” and “12.1.0.2.v6” DB instance with just a few clicks, use the “Launch DB Instance Wizard” in the AWS Management Console and select the appropriate DB engine version. To upgrade an existing database instance, use the “Modify” option in the AWS Management Console and select the appropriate DB engine version. Before you upgrade a production database instance, we recommend that you test the upgrade process on a snapshot restore of your production DB instance to verify the duration of the upgrade process as well as test your application with the new DB engine version.

To learn more about Oracle PSUs supported on RDS, visit the RDS patch update documentation .