Microchip is in volume production of its first automotive-grade 32-bit PIC32MZ EF MCU family and a higher-speed variant operating over the industrial temperature range.

Read full article: Microchip’s first auto-grade 32-bit PIC

Linear Technology has brought out a 30A step-down µModule (power module) regulator. The LTM4647 includes the inductor, MOSFET, DC/DC controller and supporting components in a 9mm x 15mm x 5.01mm BGA package. The device’s conversion efficiency from 12VIN to 1VOUT at 30A is 87%, when delivering a full 30A continuously without a heat sink or …

Read full article: LTC launches highly integrated 30A stepdown µModule

Microlease, the UK-based test equipment rental and selling business, is the target of an agreed takeover by US firm Electro Rent. This represents a major shift in Europe’s equipment rental sector and creates a global player in Electro Rent, which itself was acquired by Platinum Equity in August. Microlease became one of Europe’s largest rental firms when …

Read full article: Microlease-Electro Rent merger creates global rental firm

It’s not electronics but room has to be found on Gadget Mater for this one – the EcoHelmet. It’s a cool design, and we have quite a few cyclists among our readership, I know.

Read full article: Cycling EcoHelmet wins international James Dyson Award

Maxim has introduced an ARM Coterx-M4F microcontroller with hardware security to protect IP, algorithms, and user data in wearables. Active power consumption is 127µW/MHz, or 32µW/MHz DMA and 3.5µW in sleep – claimed to be industry’s lowest. For sleep-wake operation there is a 5µs wake-up to 96MHz Called MAX32631, security is embodied in a ‘trust protection unit’ …

Read full article: Maxim ARM MCU adds security to wearables

UV LEDs in the 280- and 310-nm bands will enable applications including sterilization and treatment of skin diseases such as psoriasis and eczema.

The owner of the 32-story Torre Europa in a busy financial district hopes modern PoE technology draws premium tenants.

AWS Marketplace, which lists over 3,500 software listings from popular software vendors across 35 product categories, has announced that customers can now subscribe to Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and Application Programming Interface (API) products directly through AWS Marketplace with SaaS Subscriptions. With this feature, customers consume software directly through an API or web browser and sellers manage and update the product. Customers can now subscribe to SaaS and API products through AWS Marketplace and pay on an existing AWS bill. Following the launch of SaaS Subscriptions on AWS Marketplace, customers will be able to choose from more products than ever before and sellers will have greater access to the AWS customer base.

Today, we updated the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) console to make it easier for you to create and manage your IAM users. These improvements include an updated user creation workflow and new ways to assign and manage permissions. The new user workflow guides you through the process of setting user details, including enabling programmatic access (via access key) and console access (via password). In addition, you can assign permissions by adding users to a group, copying permissions from an existing user, and attaching policies directly to users. We also introduced 10 new AWS managed policies that align with common job functions in organizations that you can use to assign permissions. Finally, we updated the tools to view details and manage permissions for existing users. 

You can now use cluster tags to enable fine-grained access control on Amazon EMR clusters . Using AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) policy statements , you can use conditions to allow or deny actions on clusters with tags and tag values that you specify. Additionally, you can use a policy statement that requires users to add specific tags when a cluster is created. Fine-grained access control using cluster tags is available on all Amazon EMR releases that support tags.