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...]
DesignCon Back to School Webinar: Current Distribution, Resistance & Inductance in Power Connectors
Our friends at DesignCon and Design News are launching the DesignCon Back-to-School webinar series. Experts from DesignCon's conference will share their insights from the electronics chip, board, and system industries, walking through use cases, defining various tools, and providing an understanding of why some designs look good on paper but fail once implemented. Samtec is presenting Current Distribution, Resistance & Inductance in Power Connectors. This paper won the DesignCon 2020 … [Read more...]
New Cable Management System Improves SI, Thermals
Samtec works with system architects in the early stages of their design to create solutions for cable management which provide even distribution of thermal load. Using ultra-low skew twinax cable to route signals over the board is a key performance enabler as signal integrity and reach continue to become ever more important in high-speed applications. I spoke to Aaron Tucker, Samtec's Engineering Director of High Data Rate Products, about the need for these cable management systems, design … [Read more...]
New, Cutting-Edge High-Speed Products At Semicon (And In This Blog)
Semicon, the world's largest semiconductor conference and exhibition, is September 23-25 in Taiwan. Like most shows of its size and caliber, Semicon boasts a long and illustrious list of exhibitors (500+), and countless forums, symposiums, and workshops. Of course Semicon is taking place in light of the Covid-19 pandemic. According to Semi, the event organizer and industry association representative, "with the COVID-19 outbreak in Taiwan well-contained, SEMICON Taiwan 2020 will take place on … [Read more...]
Channel Operating Margin: An In-Context Channel Compliance Method
Samtec Signal Integrity R&D Manager Brandon Gore recently presented "IEEE Channel Operating Margin For Channel Analysis" as part of our gEEk® spEEk webinars. gEEk spEEk allows engineers to interact with Samtec’s engineering leaders and SI experts on a variety of selected SI-related topics. I spoke to Brandon about the presentation and why he selected this topic, why a new channel compliance method was adopted, the fact that it is open-sourced, and its importance and value. … [Read more...]
New Samtec Products and Technologies Presented At Tech Days
Our friends at EETech are sponsoring Industry Tech Days. Although they didn’t ask for my advice, I suggested they use the tagline of “Three Days of Peace and Music” for the event. They rejected that brilliant (and original) suggestion and went with “the largest ever virtual trade show and conference for electrical engineers worldwide.” Next, I proactively suggested “Have It Your Way” as a slogan to describe the variety of content available. Not knowing a good idea when they hear … [Read more...]
A New High Performance Test System – 70 GHz
Samtec Bulls Eye® test point systems are ideal for high performance test applications because of their compression interfaces, small footprint, and high cycle count capabilities. Bulls Eye is now available in a new 70 GHz design, which joins the existing 50, 40, and 20 GHz systems. The Bulls Eye grid design and smaller footprint enable smaller evaluation boards and shorter trace lengths. The high-density array design saves significant PCB space compared to traditional test points. … [Read more...]
High-Speed Backplane Systems: A Comparison
Samtec's line of high-speed backplane interconnect systems are used in a variety of applications and designs. I spoke with Jonathan Sprigler, Samtec's High-Speed Backplane Product Manager, about our products, the differences between them, and applications. DANNY: Jonathan, can you give us a quick overview of Samtec's high-speed backplane connector products? JONATHAN: Our two high-speed backplane product families are ExaMAX® and XCede® HD. They are both press-fit connector families … [Read more...]
Demand For High Bandwidth Systems Keeps Growing – 112 Gbps and More
The pandemic has not slowed the demand for high bandwidth, high-performance systems, such as 56 Gbps PAM4, 112 Gbps PAM4 and more. Designer engineers in all types of industries, from data center, HPC, networking, telecom, medical, storage, semiconductor, wireless, test and measurement, automation and security, to name a few, continue to develop architectures to accommodate the seemingly insatiable demand for data. Earlier this year, when we were participating in live conferences and … [Read more...]
PCI Express: Is 85 Ohms Really Needed?
In late April Samtec kicked off its series of gEEk® spEEk webinars. gEEk spEEk allows engineers to interact with Samtec’s engineering leaders and SI experts on a variety of selected SI-related topics. Samtec SI Engineer Steve Krooswyk presented one of the first webinars entitled "PCI Express: Is 85 Ohms Really Needed?" This webinar was well-attended and incredibly well-received. I spoke to Steve about the presentation and why he selected this topic, about the PCIe 85 ohm requirement, and … [Read more...]
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