AWS Systems Manager for SAP is now generally available, with initial support for backing up SAP HANA databases using AWS Backup.

Amazon Lex is a service for building conversational interfaces into any application using voice and text. With Amazon Lex, you can quickly and easily build conversational bots (chatbots), virtual agents, and interactive voice response (IVR) systems. Amazon Lex is further enhancing the developer experience by providing eight pre-built bot templates, containing 50+ intents, that can be deployed in minutes. 

Can you imagine how irritating it is when you’re trying to run a dictatorship and someone takes the piss out of you? It’s not so bad if it’s a dissident – they can be jailed, shot or re-educated, but what if it’s a robot ? Getting stroppy with an robot makes you look silly, and …

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With their low losses, fast switching and high temperature tolerance, silicon carbide mosfets are now a viable option for high-current switching for use below 2kV. However, the field is relatively new and the ‘right’ way to drive such devices has yet to be established. At ISSCC 2023, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University of Taiwan …

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Ubotica, the space AI specialist, has announced its CogniSAT-XE2 hardware platform to support the use of AI in space, for in-orbit data analysis. Building on its existing CogniSAT technology, the mechanical and power envelope of CogniSAT-XE2 (with a PC/104 form factor) is compatible with small satellites such as to CubeSats and delivers increased compute performance …

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Orange and Vodafone have agreed to share O-RAN networks in Europe, with RAN sharing in rural areas where they both have mobile networks. The first commercial sites to be deployed under this agreement are planned to start this year in a rural area of Romania, near Bucharest. They will provide an initial real-life experience of …

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Imec has come up with a novel digitally calibrated charge-pump (CP) phase-locked loop (PLL) that can generate high-quality frequency-modulated continuous-wave (FMCW) signals for mmWave radars at low power consumption. The novel PLL is a critical building block for future short-range automotive (in-cabin and out-of-cabin) and industrial (e.g., on-cobot sensing) radar applications. FMCW mmWave-based radar sensors …

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Mouser has signed a global distribution agreement with Asahi Kasei Microdevices (AKM), the specialist in sensors and analogue/digital mixed-signal ICs. AKM’s products combinea the compound semiconductor technology mainly used for magnetic sensors with silicon ASIC/analogue technology. The new agreement gives design engineers easy access to AKM’s sensors and audio chips for mobile, automotive, industrial, and consumer markets. The …

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Socionext has launched a new high-speed Direct RF data converter PHY IP.. This is the latest in a series of IP offerings driving  transceiver systems for 3GPP 5GNR/LTE and Wi-Fi network infrastructure in the FR1 and FR2 (mmWave with external mixers) bands. The IPs were developed in TSMC 7nm FinFET (N7) process technology to allow …

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Infineon Technologies has introduced a first-look design tool for LCC power converters. “Power factor correction plus LCC resonant topology for constant current output has proven to offer outstanding efficiency combined with a large output voltage range in high-power LED lighting applications,” according to the company. The “topology is 5 to 6% more efficient than other …

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