Summer is winding down and many students are headed back to school. Is your social media feed blowing up with all the back-to-school pictures? This time of year may be a bit emotional for some and may cause your eyes to tear up a bit. Here are a few reasons I have seen; Sending off your own kids for the first time.Your kids have outgrown those back-to-school pictures, or are headed away for college. When looking at some of the outfits you see kids wearing to school these days.Your home … [Read more...]
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Samtec, Penn State Harrisburg Collaborate in STEM and SI/PI Education
WE ARE!... I'm sure you know how the chant goes. My alma mater, Penn State Harrisburg, and my current company Samtec have a long history of technical collaboration. The PSU Harrisburg School of Science, Engineering and Technology has been a leader in STEM education - in particular, signal integrity and power integrity. Samtec continues to expand our technical capabilities, as there is an insatiable need for engineering talent. What are some if the details of the Samtec/PSU Harrisburg … [Read more...]
Samtec Engineers Finalists For DesignCon Engineer Of The Year Award
DesignCon, the largest event for chip, board, and systems design engineers, announced the four finalists of their 2022 “Engineer of the Year” Award." This award, which seeks to recognize the best of the best in engineering and new product advancements, is given out each year during the DesignCon event. The award winner will be selected based on his or her leadership, creativity, and out-of-the-box thinking brought to design/test of chips, boards, or systems, with particular … [Read more...]
DesignCon 2024
A new era in connectivity has indeed arrived, and Samtec is ready to help you find the optimal interconnect solutions for your next design. Connect with Samtec experts at DesignCon 2024 to learn about new and existing products and technologies that support data rates up to 224 Gbps PAM4. For help with DesignCon 2024 registration, head to our show page to receive a free Expo Pass or a 15% discount for conference passes. Join Us at Tuesday's Welcome Reception! Be our guest at the … [Read more...]
Characterizing High-Speed Digital Interfaces: Reflecting on Reflections
Today’s high-speed digital interfaces have become more sensitive to signal reflections. The result is a need to characterize and suppress channel and component discontinuities. How do you select a characterization method between those called out in standards such as PCIe, IEEE 802.3, and USB? In a DesignCon 2022 paper, Steve Krooswyk, Hansel Dsilva, Richard Mellitz, Stephen Hall, Adam Gregory, Beomtaek Lee, and John Riley aim to explain each reflection standard in regard to its history, use … [Read more...]
DesignCon 2022 Review
Samtec had a fantastic week at DesignCon 2022. Attendance was good, presentations were strong, and products were fast! We talk a lot about this show because it is our major kick off for technical presentations and new product demonstrations. Read on to see some of the highlights from our DesignCon 2022 Review, or head to our DesignCon Landing Page to deep dive any of the topics we presented. From Start to Finish Our Welcome Reception kick off was a great event that hosted customers, … [Read more...]
DesignCon 2022
The Technical Renaissance continues with Samtec's presence at DesignCon 2022. Bookmark this page to keep up to date on demonstrations, paper presentations, and activities to look for at DesignCon 2022! For help with registration, head to our show page here to receive a free Expo Pass and 20% discount for the conference proceedings. Read on to find out what to expect from Samtec at DesignCon 2022! Let's Get This Party Started! We also want to invite you to join us at the … [Read more...]
Return of the gEEk® spEEk – Popular Webinar Series Continues in 2022
"Do. Or do not. There is no try." - Yoda, Grand Master of the Jedi Order Any self-respecting blog on "gEEks" should refer to Star Wars, right? In any case, the sage wisdom of Yoda continues to influence the Samtec gEEk spEEk team. Like Yoda says, the choice is to "Do". The gEEk® spEEk Signal Integrity Webinar Series returns in 2022. Samtec's gEEk spEEK team and presenters are excited to continue providing these free educational videos to our design and engineering customers. Many SI … [Read more...]
DesignCon 2020
Samtec's Istvan Novak has been named DesignCon Engineer of the Year. Congratulations, Istvan! Istvan is a Principle Signal and Power Integrity Engineer at Samtec, working on advanced signal and power integrity designs. He introduced the industry's first 25 um power-ground laminates for large rigid computer boards and worked with component vendors to create a series of low-inductance and controlled-ESR bypass capacitors. DesignCon 2020 Best Paper Award Samtec proudly … [Read more...]
DesignCon 2019
Samtec high-speed technologies for Silicon-to-Silicon optimization will be on display, including demonstrations of our state-of-the-art 56 Gbps PAM4 Active Product Demonstrator featuring several new products: AcceleRate® mezzanine, ExaMAX® backplane, and Eye Speed® ultra low skew twinax in AcceleRate® and Double Density Samtec Flyover™ QSFP28 cable assemblies. Other spotlight products include AcceleRate® 56 Gbps PAM4 multi-row interconnects, 112 Gbps PAM4 NovaRay™ high-density arrays … [Read more...]