Samtec gEEk® spEEk is a series of free online seminars, covering a wide-range of topics, all commercial-free. gEEk spEEk allows engineers the opportunity to interact with signal integrity thought leaders and experts like DesignCon Engineer of the Year Istvan Novak, Scott McMorrow, and a number of other Samtec engineering leaders. Travis Ellis, a Signal Integrity Engineer at the Samtec Wilsonville (OR) Cable Facility, recently presented "Break Out Region Design By Inspection." The purpose of … [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...]
New PCIe Gen 4 Over-Fiber Adapter Card
With the recent introduction of PCIe® Gen 4 servers and engineering work stations, designers require faster optical links for networking and accelerator interfaces. Samtec’s new PCIe Gen 4 adapter card doubles the speed over the Gen 3 card and easily plugs into any PCIe slot. Giri Tumu, Samtec’s Optics Application Engineer, walks us through a live demonstration of our latest Gen 4 optical PCIe product. The demo includes a PCIe Gen 4 server and a Non-Disruptive Migration (NDM) storage end … [Read more...]
FireFly Technology Enables Bandwidth in CERN LHC
UCLA's Maxx Tepper gives us a brief overview of the Ocean High-Throughput processor to be used in the upgrade of the real-time event selection system of the CMS experiment at the CERN LHC (Large Hadron Collider). The board incorporates Samtec FireFly™ optical cable assemblies. The project is part of the research program of the UCLA Physics and Astronomy Department, supported by the National Science Foundation. The board receives data from 500 detectors and reconstructs particle … [Read more...]
A Performance Comparison of Air-Cooled vs. Immersion Cooled Connector Systems
As computing power continues to increase, air cooled systems cannot meet current thermal requirements for HPC hardware systems. Power consumption, space and performance must all be considered during system design. Immersion cooling is a fast-growing solution to economically combat system heat, noise, power consumption and compute density. Samtec’s Brian Niehoff presented “Thermal Management of HPC Hardware Architecture via Immersion Cooling” at the Exhibitor Forum at SC20. Brian’s … [Read more...]
The Challenges Of A High-Speed RF Launch Design
Samtec has provided Final Inch designs for years at no cost. Final Inch is a reference design report for a PCB launch, or break-out-region (BOR), for one of our connectors. Obviously the BOR/launch must be carefully designed to allow for the best possible high-frequency performance. As we introduce new precision RF interconnects we continue to push the limits on mmWave test boards and the design of our RF Launches. I recently spoke with Kelly Garrison, Samtec's Principal RF Engineer, about … [Read more...]
Breaking News! Samtec New Products at Electronica South China
Electronica exhibitions and conferences have become an international franchise, with beginnings in Germany and now extending to other countries and continents. The next installment is Electronica South China, and Samtec will be there - in booth 12D13 -- showing new products and technologies. We know that most of our readers won't be at the exhibition, but I'm giving you an overview of those new products and technologies in this blog. And BTW, I know this isn't breaking news, but it seems that … [Read more...]
Samtec Still Cares
The Covid-19 pandemic continues to impact our lives in both expected and unexpected ways. Unfortunately, one of the expected ways is a drop in charitable donations. Analysts predict anywhere from a 6% decrease – with many planning for a bigger decline than that. Also, more than half non-profits expecting a decrease in giving in 2020. Here’s reason #1,298 why I love working for Samtec: despite the pandemic, Samtec continues to move forward with our Samtec Cares program. What Is Samtec … [Read more...]
High-Performance & Rugged Interconnect Solutions For Industrial Applications
Samtec has a full line of high performance and rugged interconnect solutions for industrial applications. This includes industrial automation, embedded computing, robotics, industrial internet of things, smart cities / grids / factories, monitoring, vision systems, measurement, metering, motion and process controls, and safety and security, to name of a few. The industrial sector is one of Samtec's largest customer segments. And it just so happens that, if you want to learn more about these … [Read more...]
DC Block Capacitor Location: Does It Really Matter?
Samtec’s gEEk® spEEk webinars allow engineers the opportunity to interact with Samtec’s engineering leaders and SI experts on a variety of selected SI-related topics. Gustavo Blando, a Samtec Signal Integrity Architect, recently presented “DC Block Capacitor Location (Does It Matter)?” I spoke to Gustavo about his presentation and why he selected the topic, and the challenges in selecting the location of DC block capacitors. As you can probably imagine, it’s more complicated … [Read more...]
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