Application-specific IC design emulators extend their use beyond RTL verification and represents the fourth era in the evolution of emulation, writes Jean-Marie Brunet. In the first era, emulators were used to perform in-circuit emulation (ICE). The purpose was to test a design against real-world stimulus using physical peripherals. For example, by plugging in an Ethernet …

App-based emulators go beyond RTL verification

A clinical mobile device that connects hospital staff to a smartphone-like terminal to carry out admissions, specimen collection and medication administration has been developed by Honeywell. The company believes it will create the reality of the IoT “connected clinician” in our hospitals. Sameer Agrawal, director, product marketing, Honeywell Sensing and Productivity Solutions, writes: “We see …

IoT connected clinicians use medical ‘smartphone’

The latest stats from Google are out, regarding the split of Android platform share. It’s for June 2016, based on active devices interacting with Google Play over the period of a week.

Android Marshmallow passes 10% for platform share

AWS CloudFormation has added new resource support. You can now provision the following resources using CloudFormation:

This Quick Start automates the deployment of Microsoft business productivity servers on the AWS cloud. It deploys the four most popular Windows servers in a highly available Multi-AZ architecture on AWS: SQL Server, Exchange Server, Lync Server, and SharePoint Server. The deployment also includes Active Directory Domain Services as the foundation for these business productivity servers.

Amazon RDS now offers Multi-AZ support for Amazon RDS for SQL Server in three new regions – Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Asia Pacific (Sydney) and South America (Sao Paulo) AWS Regions. This new high availability option leverages SQL Server Mirroring technology with additional improvements to meet the requirements of enterprise-grade production workloads running on SQL Server. The Multi-AZ deployment option provides enhanced availability and data durability by automatically replicating database updates between two AWS Availability Zones. Availability Zones are physically separate locations with independent infrastructure engineered to be insulated from failures in other Availability Zones. 

Five desalination plants will be developed in the Sinai governorate in Egypt following the signing of a KD29 million ($96 million) loan from the Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development…

The FPSO Turritella will connect to subsea infrastructure, breaking the existing water depth record for an oil and gas production facility.

As a business development director, Johnson will support Desalitech’s corporate and municipal partners requiring industrial water treatment and reuse systems and services.

About 140 million people—almost one-half of the Nation’s population—rely on groundwater for drinking water, and the demand for groundwater for irrigation and agriculture continues to increase.