ADI buys the Cyber Security Solutions (CSS) business of Sypris Electronics, to boost its aerospace and defense capabilities in the area of secure radio communications.

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Datwyler has now said that it won’t raise its bid for Premier Farnell after suggesting last week that it might. In June, Datwyler bid £795 million then, in July, Avnet made an £868 million bid. Last week, the Datwyler board said ‘With respect to the potential acquisition of Premier Farnell, in light of the higher …

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Green Hills Software has announced that it has completed all of the RTCA/DO-178B Level A certification requirements for its Integrity-178 tuMP multicore real-time operating system (RTOS) for Esterline CMC’s next generation of integrated avionics computers and smart displays.

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Airbus has a group in Silicon Valley which is developing flying taxis. This sort of thing is beginning to catch on in the US. In June, the State of Nevada licensed a passenger-carrying drone. The Airbus project, called Vahana, is led by Rodin Lyasoff. “Many of the technologies needed, such as batteries, motors and avionics …

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Canadian company Allo has created a HAT-compliant Hi-Fi audio stack for Raspberry Pi. It features: 2x50W stereo amplifier, DAC+headphone amplifier, re-clocker and the firm’s own Sparky single-board computer.

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There was once a boy who emigrated with his parents from Belarus to the USA at the age of 9. He started work at 15 when his father got TB. He rose from office boy to president of his company after demonstrating the commercial attractions of radio as a broadcast, rather than a point-to-point medium, …

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Texas Instruments has introduced a multi-port USB Type-C and Power Delivery (PD) mini-dock reference design that provides audio, USB data, power and video in a 50x100mm footprint. “This reference design can be powered by a traditional power adapter, USB Type-C adapter or notebook computer. Bidirectional power and data transfer allows for autonomous PD negotiation for …

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AWS Config Rules enables you to define guidelines for provisioning and configuring AWS resources and then continuously monitor the configuration of resources recorded by AWS Config. You receive notifications when resources do not comply with these guidelines and get access to a dashboard of rules. You can use the dashboard to track overall compliance status of your AWS account and to navigate specific resource configuration changes that led to noncompliance.

You can save up to 70% compared to the cost of using Amazon EC2 Dedicated Hosts On-Demand by purchasing Dedicated Host Reservations , and now you can purchase Dedicated Host Reservations within the AWS Management console or using the AWS CLI.

Auto Scaling now features an enhanced console experience with new graphs that plot the behavior of group metrics . In addition, these metrics are now free of charge, and no longer require detailed Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) detailed instance monitoring to be enabled.