Embedded computing - What is that? I ask myself that question because of a class I am taking at San Jose State University - Microprocessor-Based System Design. Embedded systems are everywhere, from your mobile devices, to drones, vehicles, and robots. However, in my course we focus on robotics ARM processors as ARM processors account for approximately 90% of all embedded 32-bit RISC processors. Some facts about ARM processors include: As of 2005, 98% of the more than one billion … [Read more...]
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The Most Important Connector Blogs of 2021
This week marks a historical milestone. In 1987 the first female artist was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Granted, this milestone isn't of lasting significance to mankind like a revloutionary technology or a treatment for a dangerous medical condition, but it is newsworthy to some of us. By the way, the honor goes to Aretha Franklin. Some of my favorite Aretha songs include "I Never Loved A Man The Way That I Love You" and "Think," the latter being my personal favorite. Her … [Read more...]
A Student’s Perspective – Smart Cities, Smart Grids and Smart Factories
Smart cities, grids and factories are exciting and rapidly innovative industries in today’s world. As an Electrical Engineering student at San José State University in the heart of Silicon Valley, I can observe the innovation real-time. For example, the city of San José seeks to be the "smartest" city on the planet. As I progress in my studies, I look forward to seeing the practical applications in Smart Cities efforts. Smart Cities - What are they? A smart city is a framework to … [Read more...]
Samtec Offers Comprehensive 112 Gbps PAM4 Portfolio
Summer. Time for a break! Whether "taking a vacation" or "on holiday", individuals and families are gearing up for the peak July/August travel season. Many will go to the beach. Others will take long road trips. Others prefer an escape to nature in the mountains or on a lake. Regardless of destination, vacation or holiday planning means data consumption. Booking plane tickets. Making hotel reservations. Researching a new activity. All done online. Of course, peak travel time will not … [Read more...]
New High Speed Connector System Performs At 112 Gbps PAM4
System architects and design engineers are interested in bleeding-edge performance. In this new 112 Gbps PAM4 product demonstration, Samtec marries the SI Evaluation Kit for the new AcceleRate® HP high speed connector system with Alphawave’s AlphaCORE 112 Gbps PAM4 Long Reach Multi-Standard SERDES. The test set-up emulates the real-world by routing differential pairs from the Alphawave SERDES through Samtec's AcceleRate HP High-Performance Arrays. Matt Burns, Technical Marketing Manager at … [Read more...]
The New Connectors In The New Catalog
Years ago it was a big deal when Samtec released a new catalog. It was a chance to showcase new connectors, new technologies, and new services. Obviously our digital world has greatly reduced the need for printed materials. But, while it's down considerably from previous years, there's still demand for our printed catalogs. Did I just say that there's still people who read printed catalogs? Yes, I did. According to Harvard Business Review, catalog mailings have been on the increase since … [Read more...]
embedded world DIGITAL
Samtec Showcases Latest Interconnect Solutions at embedded world 2021 DIGITAL New PICMG COM-HPC®-aligned Connectors Featured EMBEDDED. INTELLIGENT. SYSTEMS. embedded world 2021 DIGITAL takes place March 1-5, 2021 on a virtual platform together with the embedded world Conference and the electronic displays Conference. Expert knowledge and state of the art innovations, including Samtec, are presented in a clearly structured and compact format. Technical Presentations Technical … [Read more...]
The 10 Most Influential Connector Blogs Of 2020
I look forward to reading end-of-the-year lists that review significant events that occured in the previous year. I'm a baseball fan so there's the list of six Baseball greats who passed away in 2020. There's also the 20 Most Exciting Tech Products of CES 2020. We posted about 153 connector blogs in 2020. Topics included connector design, connector and PCB processing, testing, high speed-demonstrations, new products, webinars, trends in electronics, history, BattleBots, website updates, and … [Read more...]
Embedded World 2021
Embedded World will "master the challenges together" at the 2021 virtual global event. The embedded community will exchange information and help discover the latest trends, products, and technologies. Samtec Inc. will be in attendance virtually featuring new COM-HPC Interconnect Solutions. COM-HPC, expected to be ratified in early 2021, coexists with the COM Express specification, but provides the scalability and enhanced performance for next-gen system design. For a deeper overview of … [Read more...]
Here are the November 2020 Websites Updates to Samtec.com
In November we took time to do some tuning on the back-end architecture of Samtec.com, built a few new content pages, updated our product data in Solutionator, and added the ability to add End Customers in the Cart. Here are the major updates to Samtec.com for November 2020. Virtual Hardware and API Updates This change isn't visible on the website other than how it feels, but you'll definitely notice it if you're a frequent user of Samtec.com Over the last couple of months, we've … [Read more...]