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...]
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The New 2024 Catalog
It’s the best time of the year – the holidays are coming and Samtec’s new 2024 catalog is here! It features over 50 new product series, so get out your pens and start circling what’s going on your Christmas list! The catalog is categorized by six Solution Blocks – High-Speed Board-to-Board, High-Speed Cable, Optics, RF, Rugged/Power and Flexible Stacking. Rugged/Power received the largest overhaul from the previous catalog with the addition of Ultra Rugged products. Ideal for … [Read more...]
The Role of Components in Safety and Reliability
The industrial world creates a dangerous workplace. From the highly automated factory floor to heavy industries such as mining, it is vital that we apply standards that ensure workers and equipment are kept safe from harmful conditions, and that our systems deliver reliable service. In some applications, it is possible for engineers to use products that are tested to recognized international standards. When protecting equipment from tough environments, manufacturers have adopted the … [Read more...]
The Challenge of Vertical Farming – Part 2
In the first article of this series about vertical farming, we looked at the trends that have led to the emergence of this new technology. The challenges of a growing global population, climate change and competing uses for agricultural land mean that farmers are looking for alternative ways of producing food. Vertical farming is one approach to solving this problem by using urban or industrial spaces to grow crops. In this article, we will look at some of the technology that is making … [Read more...]
It’s a Small World After All
"It's a small world" takes on a whole new meaning when we look into some future options of Small Form Factor (SFF) plug-in cards. These small but mighty powerhouses are at the forefront of innovation, driving compact yet robust solutions for modern computing needs. In this blog, we'll take a ride through some recently added features of SFF plug-in cards, specifically focusing on the VITA 90.2 standard used in the SOSA (Sensor Open Systems Architecture) standards. It has been quite a spring and … [Read more...]
The War of Electronics
In the world of modern warfare, electronic warfare (EW) has emerged as a pivotal domain, enabling the manipulation of the electromagnetic spectrum for strategic advantage. At the heart of effective electronic warfare systems lies a critical yet often overlooked component: the interconnects. Samtec delivers Sudden Service® solutions that are engineered to meet the stringent quality, production, and compliance requirements of many standard and application-specific military and aerospace … [Read more...]
Here are the May 2023 Samtec Website Updates
In May, the Samtec web team released a few new content pages for the website with some exciting product developments, a new mini tool to view current carrying capacity on select products, and a homepage user experience update that allows easier access to technical support resources and our digital tools. Here were the major updates to Samtec.com for May 2023. Homepage Update to Digital Tools and Resources We recently updated the homepage of Samtec.com with four new graphics in our … [Read more...]
High-Speed Cables and Signal Integrity
We all seem to want more these days. When it comes to the speed of our electronic communication, we always want more data, delivered more quickly. As communication becomes ever-faster, an understanding of signal integrity is vital, especially the role that cables play in maintaining it. Samtec has recently released the second edition of the Signal Integrity Handbook. This much-awaited publication is trusted by SI professionals across the electronics industry, and I decided to find out … [Read more...]
SEARAY: Maximize Design Flexibility And Density
SEARAY™ is Samtec's line of high-speed, high-density grid array connectors. SEARAY gives designers tons of design flexibility, much more than any other array product in the industry. Flexibility SEARAY is a 1.27 mm X 1.27 mm grid. It is an open pin field grid array, meaning pins are not dedicated as signal or ground. Designers can specify pins for single-ended signals, differential pairs, ground, and/or power, all on the same connector. This gives designers maximum grounding and … [Read more...]
FACE™ and SOSA™ TIM 2022
This Technical Interchange Meeting (TIM) and Expo kicks off the week of September 26th in Dayton, Ohio. The focus of this meeting is to discover new advancements and progress made for the functionality and interoperability of modular open system environments. Samtec is helping with these advancements through work in standards bodies, where we continue to push the signal integrity and rugged interconnect solutions available. Before we get too far in the conversation I do want to … [Read more...]
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