Visitors to our New Albany, Indiana-based headquarters are usually impressed with our spacious, open-air, two-story lobby, our 6,000-gallon aquarium, and the newly renovated, state-of-the-art “The Nook.” The Nook is a wall-sized, digital product showroom, with high-definition, breathtaking graphics that tell the Samtec story to our guests. In The Nook, a visitor can learn about our global operations and integration, customers and markets served, Sudden Service®, Silicon-to-Silicon … [Read more...]
DesignCon 23 or Super Bowl LVII?
We are preparing to head out west for one of the biggest showdowns of the year. Competitors have been preparing since the spring of 2022 for this meeting. The final countdown is upon us! We will see if all the preparations, the workouts, and the toning of muscles will pay off. Are we talking about Super Bowl LVII or DesignCon 23? We bloggers will make reference to pop culture, sporting events, and other random trivia from time to time. Since you are here on Samtec's blog you have probably … [Read more...]
Characterizing High-Speed Digital Interfaces: Reflecting on Reflections
Today’s high-speed digital interfaces have become more sensitive to signal reflections. The result is a need to characterize and suppress channel and component discontinuities. How do you select a characterization method between those called out in standards such as PCIe, IEEE 802.3, and USB? In a DesignCon 2022 paper, Steve Krooswyk, Hansel Dsilva, Richard Mellitz, Stephen Hall, Adam Gregory, Beomtaek Lee, and John Riley aim to explain each reflection standard in regard to its history, use … [Read more...]
Electronica – The Premier Event
Electronica is the premier event for the electronics industry in Europe. While there are many other exhibitions dedicated to specialist markets, some of them quite large, Electronica is regarded by many as the premier event for our industry. Hosted in Munich every 2 years, the 2020 event was held online due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Electronica returned to Munich last week for the first time in 4 years. Unlike in the USA, the trade fair calendar in Europe has been slower to return to … [Read more...]
Samtec Cares Celebrates Its Latest Grant Cycle
Throughout its history, Samtec has enjoyed supporting various charities and causes as well as encouraging community involvement at our locations around the world. The Samtec Cares Grant Program was created to positively impact and assist charitable organizations within our local and global communities. Samtec Cares Impact Samtec Cares is proud to have recently awarded a total of almost $675,000 in grants and sponsorships to local non-profit organizations. Pam Grieb, Samtec Cares Grant … [Read more...]
Samtec Powers Future EVSE Infrastructure
Summertime brings family vacations (holidays) and driving or flying long distances. Gas (petrol) prices are on the rise, so many people are rethinking the economies of personal electrical vehicles. Additionally, global logistics companies are adopting electric vans and trucks for local deliveries. More EVs are driving the need for increased EV charging infrastructure. It's common to see EV chargers in homes, shopping centers, gas or petrol stations or if office parks around the world. Yet, a … [Read more...]
New 12G-SDI Products, RF Launches, Outstanding Service and Support: NAB 2022
NAB is back and in-person, and Samtec is back at NAB. It's difficult to describe everything at the NAB Show (National Association of Broadcasters). I'll attempt to summarize it by saying that NAB is a monumental explosion of the latest broadcast products, solutions, equipment, and technologies. Samtec’s extensive portfolio of high-performance interconnector solutions are ideal for supporting resolution, frame rate, density and latency demands of the broadcast video market. Interconnect … [Read more...]
Samtec Engineers Finalists For DesignCon Engineer Of The Year Award
DesignCon, the largest event for chip, board, and systems design engineers, announced the four finalists of their 2022 “Engineer of the Year” Award." This award, which seeks to recognize the best of the best in engineering and new product advancements, is given out each year during the DesignCon event. The award winner will be selected based on his or her leadership, creativity, and out-of-the-box thinking brought to design/test of chips, boards, or systems, with particular … [Read more...]
Samtec Sponsors and Presents at AltiumLive 2022 Connect Virtual Summit
"Virtual summits are so 2021," wished many. While some yearn for in-person events, virtual events offer a level of engagement unavailable before the pandemic. Attendees around the world gain access to rich content of importance to them both live and on-demand. One of the first events on the tech calendar is the upcoming AltiumLive 2022 Connect Virtual Summit. Attendees will Learn, Connect, and Get Inspired in an immersive experience within multiple technical tracks and a number … [Read more...]
Return of the gEEk® spEEk – Popular Webinar Series Continues in 2022
"Do. Or do not. There is no try." - Yoda, Grand Master of the Jedi Order Any self-respecting blog on "gEEks" should refer to Star Wars, right? In any case, the sage wisdom of Yoda continues to influence the Samtec gEEk spEEk team. Like Yoda says, the choice is to "Do". The gEEk® spEEk Signal Integrity Webinar Series returns in 2022. Samtec's gEEk spEEK team and presenters are excited to continue providing these free educational videos to our design and engineering customers. Many SI … [Read more...]
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