Samtec open-pin-field arrays like SEARAY™ provide designers the ability to simultaneously run differential pairs, single-ended signals, and power through the same board-to-board interconnect. This design approach allows maximum pin-selection, routing, and grounding flexibility. Additionally, Samtec open-pin-field solutions can be used to route differential or single-ended analog or RF signaling in addition to digital differential pairs, single-ended signals, and power in the same connector. … [Read more...]
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New High-Speed Board-to-Board & Backplane Guide: A Pile of Choices
We are faced with choices all day long – some easy and some hard. It can be overwhelming when the options are numerous and any research on the internet is bottomless. Books, talks and conferences offer a variety of tools and approaches promising to make the decision making process easier, but I’m pretty sure that’s just one more decision we have to make. Samtec offers the largest variety of high-speed board-to-board and backplane interconnects in the industry. With so many options, … [Read more...]
Need Secure PCB Stacking? You Can Be Sure.
When mating two or more printed circuit boards (PCBs), what’s the easiest way to be certain you have a robust, reliable, secure PCB stacking connection? The answer is often to use a precision board stacking standoff, especially in high shock and vibration environments. Samtec’s SureWare™ ultra-rugged hardware family includes several varieties of board stacking standoffs, each with their own unique features and benefits. However, ALL are designed to work with Samtec high-speed, high-density … [Read more...]
Our Most Popular Connector Products of 2023
What are Samtec's most popular connector products? It's more varied than most people think it would be. The list includes active optical cable assemblies, high-speed copper cable systems, extreme microminiature glass interposers and substrates, basic two-piece pin and socket strip connectors, and micro edge card connectors, among others. Here's the list, pretty much in order of sales: ECUO: ECUO is a FireFly™ active optical cable assembly. It boasts the industry’s leading miniature … [Read more...]
New Intel/Arrow AXE5-Eagle FPGA Dev Kit with Samtec Interconnects Ready to Ship
FPGAs are taking over the world, or it just seems that way. At least for readers of the Samtec blog. Samtec oftens gets questions as to whether we sell FPGAs or not. Of course we don't, but we do sell VITA 57.1 FMC and VITA 57.4 FMC+ interconnects found on just about every FPGA dev kit in the world. Samtec even offers a wide portfolio of FMC, FMC+ and optical module evaluation kits for real-time development and testing in a lab setting. So, the reader may ask, why does the Samtec blog … [Read more...]
How to Carry Analog, Digital, and Power in One Connector
In a recently published white paper, “Array Connectors for Mixed Signal Multi-Channel RFSoCs up to 8 GHz,” Samtec engineers describe the research, development, simulation, and measurements performed in a project to design the optimal breakout region (BOR) for the use of array connectors that simultaneously carry analog, digital, and power signals in an RF environment, as a replacement for traditional compression mount and threaded PCB connectors. The results show that it is possible to route … [Read more...]
Practical Guidelines To Achieve Quality Solder Joints
Many factors affect the quality and performance of a connector: pin material, the qualityof the stamping, the quality of and choice of surface finish, and the tolerances on theplastic insulator, just to name a few. Beyond the connector, another factor that is crucialto the performance of the connector on the printed circuit board is the quality of thesolder joints. This document addresses some of the most frequently asked questions aboutconnector solder joints, as answered by David Decker, … [Read more...]
New High-Speed Cable Guide
Who doesn’t love a care package? Open a box from someone you know and find a surprise inside. In college, my aunt used to send me the best sugar cookies – very helpful for enticing friends to study with you. Similar to a care package from someone you know, Samtec just released a new High-Speed Cable Design Guide full of new products, technologies and roadmap items (sorry, no cookies this time). The Guide highlights Samtec’s innovation for next generation architectures – Flyover®, HDR, … [Read more...]
Power Up Your Electronic Designs
I went to see the new release of the Super Bros. Movie release. It was definitely so my kids could watch the new movie and not that I wanted to feel nostalgic and relive any of the games I played long ago! The throwbacks and references buried throughout the entire movie touched on just about every Mario game ever made. It is worth a watch if you ever played any of those games. When I signed up to put together a blog topic on power products that Samtec makes, my mind went to how we Power … [Read more...]
Samtec and Arrow Partner on New Intel® Agilex™ 5 E-series SoC Dev Kit
"Intelligent edge." That is a new term for many. Basically it refers to the the increased computational capabilities at the edge of the communications networks. Typically, heavy compute loads are executed in data centers or on supercomputers. As the "intelligent edge" ramps up performance, those calculations are enabled by embedded devices using multicore CPUs, FPGAs, SoCs, and the like. Intelliegent edge and embedded computing applications combine faster speeds with lower power … [Read more...]
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