Nexperia has released electro-thermal models for some of its mosfets, many of them automotive qualified. It “developed these models in close partnership with a Tier 1 OEM whose requirements could not be satisfied by any others currently available”, according to the company. “Simulation models for mosfets usually include a limited number of device parameters modelled …

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Earlier today Toshiba shareholders voted against the management’s plan to split the company into two parts – infrastructure products and devices. Shareholders also voted against a proposal by activist shareholder 3D Investment Partners of Singapore to consider other options including a sale of the company to private equity. The way ahead after the two votes …

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Rohm is claiming to have improved load transient response in switching and linear power supplies by modifying the voltage feedback loop. Branded QuiCur, the technique is intended to reduce the amount of capacitance needed at the supply’s output, while navigating the balance between fast loop response for good load and line fluctuation response, and the …

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Hirose has added a waterproof panel mount connector to its DF62WP wire-to-wire connector series. Outside the panel, the connectors offer an “IP67 equivalent”, said the company, waterproof seal between cable and socket. Inside the panel, the connectors offer a waterproof seal between panel and plug. The crimped contacts and wire are inserted through the seals to …

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Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) now enables customers to help applications scale out faster and save costs by using Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Auto Scaling Warm Pools with their Amazon ECS clusters. Warm Pools allow customers to create a pool of pre-initialized Amazon EC2 instances that are ready to quickly serve application traffic.

AWS Amplify announces the new @mapsTo GraphQL directive, enabling developers to iterate and rename their GraphQL models without worrying about data migration. The AWS Amplify CLI is a command line toolchain that helps frontend developers create app backends in the cloud. With Amplify’s GraphQL Transformer, developers can configure their backend data model using the GraphQL Schema Definition Language, and Amplify CLI automatically transforms the schema into a fully functioning GraphQL API with its underlying database tables.

We are happy to announce the preview of Amazon GameSparks, a managed AWS service that provides game developers with features for building, running, and scaling the backend for their games without having to manage servers or low-level cloud primitives. Amazon GameSparks makes building a game backend easy for game developers who have little to no cloud experience since it comes with out-of-the-box backend features that require minimal setup and is pre-integrated with the Unity game engine.

Amazon QuickSight now supports native groups management with an interactive user interface. With this change, administrators can efficiently and easily administer and govern user groups via the QuickSight admin console. They can create and manage groups and manage users membership within groups. Groups Management UI is available to administrators with access to the QuickSight admin console pages via IAM credentials. For more information visit here .

Today we are releasing AWS GameKit, a new solution that allows game developers to deploy and customize game backend features directly from Unreal Engine. AWS GameKit comes with AWS CloudFormation templates for each feature that follows AWS Solution Architect designs. AWS GameKit also comes with an integration code between the game backend features and Unreal Engine. AWS GameKit is for game developers looking to build AWS-powered game features directly from Unreal Engine with just a few clicks.

AWS Proton support for defining infrastructure in HashiCorp Configuration Language (HCL) and provisioning infrastructure using Terraform Open Source is now generally available in all regions where Proton is available. Platform teams can now define AWS Proton templates using Terraform modules, in addition to CloudFormation. AWS Proton leverages the customer-managed Terraform automation to provision or update the infrastructure. Customers can use Terraform as their infrastructure definition and provisioning tool, and AWS Proton keeps modules that are used consistently up to date. This generally available launch includes support for BitBucket repositories for infrastructure management, and improved messaging across the service to further clarify the status of provisioning.