So what are the four pains of migration from an 8-bit MCU and how can a programmable device approach help to limit the pain, writes Raul Hernandez Arthur Few 8-bit microcontroller (MCU) users actively want to go through the experience of migrating a design to a 32-bit processing platform. The drawbacks of migration are, by …

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At the NMI’s 20th anniversary Awards last night, Renishaw was celebrated as Company of the Year, with it being hailed as a world leader in the development of precision-measurement systems.

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Cree has created a 3,000K version of its IG Series of luminaires for vehicle parking, and has added 0-10V dimming as a standard feature. The light use waveguides to spread where it is wanted, which Cree brands WaveMax. for low glare, little light is emitted outside +/-50 downwards – see the data sheet. “Parking structure …

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One of the most controversial trade deals ever done was the 1986 semiconductor trade deal between the USA and Japan which mandated a 15% Japan market share for US chip manufacturers. The following year Shintaro Ishihara, a member of Japan’s Diet, visited Washington. ‘I was at a reception where members of Congress and lobbyists for …

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Would you believe it, I am writing this away from Electronics Weekly Towers via a remote connection and using a Raspberry Pi 3, kindly donated to Electronics Weekly by Element 14 (RS Components has been just as generous to EW with Raspberry Pis in the past. The computer is quick and responsive – at least …

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At the Eliot program launch in the Big Apple, Legrand insiders reveal how collaboration can advance the IoT in smart buildings.

You can now create configurable, rule-based events for notifications and automated actions based on AWS Trusted Advisor’s library of best-practice checks using Amazon CloudWatch Events. With this new integration, you can now more easily build workflows and processes that are triggered by the status of individual Trusted Advisor checks. 

You can now use Amazon Elastic Transcoder to stitch together two or more input clips to create a longer clip in the desired output format(s). You can do this by specifying multiple inputs when creating a transcode job on Amazon Elastic Transcoder. Clips are stitched together in the order that they are specified in the job request. For each input, you can specify a Start Time and a Duration, which allows you to stitch together only the parts of each input that you want included in the output. You can leverage clip stitching to create highlight clips or add bumpers and trailers to your videos as part of the transcode process. 

Amazon GameLift is a fully managed service that makes it simple and cost-effective to deploy, operate, and scale session-based multiplayer game servers in the cloud. GameLift has launched a new feature, remote instance access. This feature enables game developers to access fleets and instances in real time to debug their game or better understand player behavior. 

We are excited to announce a new edge location in Hong Kong for Amazon CloudFront. Hong Kong now has three edge locations which brings the total number of worldwide edge locations to 65.