Allegro Microsystems has introduced isolated differential current sensor ICs based on the Hall effect. Accuracy is typically +/-1% from 25 to 125°C, and +/-3% from -40 to +25°C. Both the ACS724KMA (4.5-5.5V) and the ACS725KMA (3.0-3.6V) are available in 10.3 x 10.3mm SOIC16 wide body packages. Inside there is a chopper-stabilised BiCMOS Hall sensor circuit …

Isolated current sensor uses Hall effect

Cadence Design Systems has addressed verification of complex analogue IC designs with its latest Virtuoso platform. This is a recognition of the growing importance of analogue and mixed chip design for data gatheirng nodes which are part of the internet of things (IoT). The tool’s Analogue Design Environment (ADE) will be used for advanced-node designs …

Cadence addresses complex analogue designs for IoT

The most famous couple in tech have been ousted. Weili Dai and Suhat Sutardja who founded Marvell in 1995 with Suhat’s brother Pantas, have been fired from their jobs as President and CEO respectively. Sutardja remains as Chairman and both of them remain on the board. The move is reminiscent of how George and Gust …

Marvell Co-Founders Ousted From Management Roles

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We are excited to announce the launch of three new health checking features for Amazon Route 53:

Metric Based Health Checks let you perform DNS failover based on any metric that is available within Amazon CloudWatch, including AWS-provided metrics and custom metrics from your own application. When you create a metric based health check within Amazon Route 53, the health check becomes unhealthy whenever its associated Amazon CloudWatch metric enters an alarm state.

Amazon API Gateway now supports importing Swagger API definitions. Previously, you would use the Swagger importer tool to import Swagger definitions into API Gateway. Now, you can import your Swagger API definitions into API Gateway through the AWS Management Console, CLI, and SDK. This allows you to easily create and deploy new APIs as well as update existing APIs in Amazon API Gateway.

You now have the ability to shuffle your training data with Amazon Machine Learning (Amazon ML) for improved ML model quality. Amazon ML creates better ML models when input rows are presented to the ML algorithm in a random order. With this new training parameter option, you can have Amazon ML shuffle the order of the rows of your training data. Data shuffling will be turned on by default in the Amazon ML console when you create an ML model. You can control this option through the console, or turn data shuffling on through the API and SDK.

Transcript for the WaterWorld Weekly Newscast for the week of April 4, 2016.

Q1 sales (to the end of February) at BlackBerry fell by almost $200m to $464 million. The company made a loss of $238 million in the quarter compared to a profit of $28 million for the same quarter last year. The company blamed delays caused by negotiations with the network operators about its Priv handset. …

BlackBerry still struggling

Huawei grew revenue 37% to $62 billion for a profit of $5.7 billion. It expects revenues of $75 billion this year. Sales of consumer goods, including 108 million smartphones, rose 73% to $19.9 billion. Sales of networking equipment rose 21% to $35.8 billion propelled by investment in 4G. Huawei spent $9 billion on R&D. In …

Huawei enjoys bumper 2015