DesignCon 2018, which is a big deal for Samtec, is a few weeks away. Our high-speed technologies for Silicon-to-Silicon optimization will be on full display and our product experts will show new products that are just released, or will be released in 2018. Our application engineers will demonstrate new system-level solutions, and our SI experts will present technical papers. In the next few weeks we'll write about all of these products, demos, events, and presentations. To help you … [Read more...]
Samtec Helps GrowFlux Ruggedize Intelligent Horticulture Lighting
Earth’s population continues to grow. Some reports suggest upwards of 10 billion people will inhabit the planet by 2050, requiring more than double today’s current food production capacity. How will everybody be fed? Is there more land? Is there more fresh water? These are questions facing the agricultural community. Many new approaches to farming are emerging. Whether called “smart farming”, “precision agriculture” or “climate-smart agriculture”, applying new sensing … [Read more...]
Samtec Proudly Supports STEM Education via 2018 FIRST® Robotics Competition Sponsorship
Experts across multiple industries - including electronics components - agree the need for more scientists, technologists, engineers and mathematicians has never been greater. STEM education remains a constant focus for many industries, governments and universities globally. Job growth backs this up. One report from the US Department of Commerce says STEM occupations grew much faster than non-STEM occupations over the last decade (24.4% versus 4.0%). STEM occupations are … [Read more...]
VITA 57 Solutions Enable Scalable ASIC Development Platforms
Readers of the Samtec blog know that FPGAs offer the most flexible electronics development platform in the world. Diverse applications ranging from machine learning and embedded vision to 5G wireless and cloud computing leverage the configurability and programmability of FPGAs to scale I/O, computing and DSP functionality. FPGAs are also frequently used in next-generation ASIC development projects. FPGAs allow for fast and accurate ASIC modeling and verification with accelerated … [Read more...]
How Samtec Uses A Scanning Electron Microscope To Ensure Quality Connectors
Samtec is one of the fortunate connector companies to own a Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM). We recently upgraded our SEM to a new Jeol, JSM-IT500, which has a 100,000 X magnification power. I spoke with Dave Scopelliti, our Test, Measurement, and Processing Guru, about this new equipment and how Samtec uses the SEM to improve the quality of our connector products and services. Danny: Dave, how does a connector manufacturer like Samtec use an Electron Microscope? Dave: … [Read more...]
Another Top 10 List: Samtec’s Most Popular Product Lines In 2017
I like reading and watching end-of-the-year lists. From best new electronic gadgets, to best movies and songs of the year, to top plays on ESPN. BTW, as a volleyball coach, this is my top sports play of the year. There are plenty of Top 10 lists at Samtec that would make for fascinating reading. Off the top of my head (no pun intended) there's Top 10 Stupid Comments in Meetings (I would hold about seven of the ten spots), or Top 10 Annoying Coworkers (I like to think I would only … [Read more...]
Here They Are. The Top 10 Samtec Blog Posts of 2017.
2017 was another amazing year for Samtec as we continued to grow our reach and push the limits of technology in our industry. Along with that came hundreds of blog posts on The Samtec Blog with hundreds of thousands of visits. We've expanded beyond being just a "Samtec News" site to posting helpful how-to articles, industry news articles, and beyond. Ranked by pure traffic, here are our top blog posts of 2017. Enjoy! Top Samtec Blog Posts of 2017 1. Dissimilar Metals And The Risk of … [Read more...]
How to Use the Advanced Search Features on Samtec.com
It's been several months since we released the newest version of our on-site search tool on Samtec.com. Since then we've rolled out several performance tweaks, relevancy tweaks, and are even working on adding the ability to search videos and cross reference data specifically. In this post, we'd like to call out one major difference of our search versus what you might find on Google or Bing, which is how our relevancy algorithm works to rank your results. This has a major effect on what … [Read more...]
Why Is Samtec’s Mascot A Tiger?
I am asked frequently why Samtec, a connector company, has a tiger for a mascot? Isn’t it obvious? When I think of tigers, I think of connectors. Just like every time I see a praying mantis I think of a thermostat. Seriously, there is a story behind how Samtec selected a tiger for its mascot. So I’ll take a break from writing about connectors and applications and share the story as it was passed down to me by the tribal elders years ago … Samtec was founded on … [Read more...]
New FPGA Development Platforms Feature Samtec High-Speed Solutions
FPGA system designers have no shortage of FPGA options for their next-gen end market solution. Xilinx continues to expand their UltraScale+ families. Intel PSG/Altera will ramp Arria 10 and Stratix 10 solutions well in to 2018. New FPGA products require a new generation of FPGA development platforms. Thankfully, both the Xilinx and Intel PSG/Altera design partner ecosystems thrive at launching just what the market needs. Several new platforms feature key Samtec interconnect options that … [Read more...]
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