Berkshire-based Phabrix is manufacturing its 8,000th Sx handheld 3G-SDI tester. Established in 2005 by engineer Phillip Adams, the company was set-up to create an instrument to test and monitor the then new 3G-SDI signals. The SxA prototype was unveiled at IBC2007, with production starting the following year. 13 years later, the company is still making …

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Electroninks has added gold and platinum particle-free conductive inks to its silver and copper inks. Chemically-resistant, the printed metal structures can be used as conductive tracks and contacts in high-temperature electronics in consumer and medical devices, sensors and semiconductors, according to the company. It claims 6μΩ.cm for the gold version and 40 – 120Ω/square for …

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Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Performance Insights is a database performance tuning and monitoring feature of RDS and Aurora that helps you quickly assess the load on your database and determine when and where to take action. One way to view Performance Insights data is in the AWS Management Console. Performance Insights also provides a public API so that you can query your own data. We are now launching three new API endpoints: GetResourceMetadata, ListAvailableResourceDimensions, and ListAvailableResourceMetrics. These new APIs provide programmatic access to metadata about the metrics collected by Performance Insights. This makes it easier to build richer, more dynamic integrations into your monitoring tool or platform of choice. To learn more about Performance Insights APIs, read “Retrieving metrics with the Performance Insights API” .

Today, AWS Systems Manager announces support for categorizing Amazon owned Command documents for easy discoverability. AWS Systems Manager is the operational hub for AWS, that provides a unified user interface to track and resolve operational issues across AWS applications from a central place. An AWS Systems Manager document (SSM document) defines the actions that Systems Manager performs on your managed nodes.

AWS Storage Gateway is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region.

You can now publish the Redis engine log from your Amazon ElastiCache for Redis clusters to Amazon CloudWatch Logs and Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose. The Redis engine log provides visibility into the internal operations of the Redis engine, giving additional insight into Redis operations and helping you troubleshoot Redis issues. You can choose to send these logs in either JSON or text format to Amazon CloudWatch Logs and Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose .

Journeys in Amazon Pinpoint can now automatically re-evaluate each journey participant before sending them through a Contact Center activity. In Amazon Pinpoint, journeys are multi-step campaigns that can be used across several channels, including SMS, email, push, and voice. Journeys are intended for customers who have user engagement use cases, and who want to send targeted communications that drive high-value user actions.

Today, AWS announced the opening of a new Direct Connect location in Sydney, Australia. AWS customers in Australia can now establish network connections from their premises to AWS in the NextDC S2 data center to gain high-performance, secure access to all public AWS Regions (except Regions in China). This is the third Direct Connect location in the Sydney metropolitan area. In Australia, Direct Connect is present in Canberra, Sydney, Melbourne, and Perth. The new location offers dedicated 1 Gbps, 10 Gbps, and 100 Gbps connections.

I came across a lovely little picosecond pulse generator, designed and assembled by SiliconValleyGarage. It is based on circuit designs by Jim Williams, who had a habit of squeezing every last drop of performance out of relatively low-cost components, frequently by building 3D rats nests which look like they would be hell to turn into …

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EMA Design Automation, the US EDA specialist, has merged with  FlowCAD,. This is EMA’s fourth expansion in 18 months bringing EMA closer to their aim of being a global EDA provider. “As our customers continue to globalize, we must be able to meet them where they are across the world,” says EMA CEO Nanny Marcano. …

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