Steve Groothuis -- or Groot to everybody else on this planet -- Chief Technology Officer of Samtec Microelectronics, recently presented “Packaging Innovations For Medical Wearables” at the Medical Wearables Conference in Santa Clara, California. Groot’s presentation focused on the specific needs, challenges, and innovations within upcoming medical applications and medical device packaging. We caught up with Groot and asked him about the presentation and its message. DANNY: Steve, … [Read more...]
Samtec Updates Homepage With Silicon-to-Silicon Focus
As the industry evolves, data rate requirements continue to increase at a rapid pace, approaching and even surpassing 56 Gbps. As this continues, developers are challenged with balancing increasing throughput, scalability and density demands with concerns such as power consumption, signal integrity, cost and time-to-market. Samtec helps address these challenges with industry-leading expertise in high-performance interconnect design, system optimization, and innovative strategies and … [Read more...]
Interconnects For VITA 57.4 FMC+ Standard
VITA 57.4 FMC+ Standard As an ANSI/VITA member, Samtec supports the release of the new ANSI/VITA 57.4-2018 FPGA Mezzanine Card Plus Standard. VITA 57.4, also referred to as FMC+, expands upon the I/O capabilities defined in ANSI/VITA 57.1 FMC by adding two new connectors that enable higher data rates. FMC+ modules provide a standardized mezzanine card often employed in FPGA development solutions and by COTS manufacturers. Due to features such as their small form factor and … [Read more...]
July 2018 Web Updates for Samtec.com
In July we rolled out several new content updates to the website, as well as a brand new streamlined checkout experience. We also made some updates to the recently released FSE locator tool to make it far easier to find your local Samtec FSE. Here are the major web updates for July 2018. Silicon-to-Silicon Content Updates As data rate requirements approach and surpass 56 Gbps, developers are challenged with balancing increasing throughput, scalability and density demands with concerns … [Read more...]
Samtec and Molex Share High Speed Product IP
Our friends at Signal Integrity Journal recently reported Samtec's and Molex's collaboration on high speed, next-generation data centers. The complete article is worth the read, but here's the Cliff's Notes version: SIJ referred to the Licensed Source Agreement for the Samtec Twinax Flyover™ and Molex BiPass™ systems fo high-speed data (56 Gbps and 112 Gbps) speeds. According to a Molex spokesperson, both product lines approach their customers’ design challenges in the same … [Read more...]
krtkl snickerdoodle Leverages Samtec Tiger Eye™ Interconnect for Improved Reliability
Consumer access to embedded computing platforms is a recent phenomenon. For decades, enterprises, academia and research institutions had the resources to leverage these easy-to-use platforms In recent years, open-source electronics platforms like Raspberry Pi and Arduino have changed the paradigm. Cost-effective, embedded computing platforms are readily accessible and easy-to-use for students, tinkerers, hobbyists and makers. High-bandwidth applications like computer vision, … [Read more...]
Samtec and Maker Mobile Visit Maker Faire Detroit
The Maker Faire train keeps right on rolling into the Motor City this weekend. For those that have never been to a Maker Faire, it can be best described as "part science fair, part county fair, and part something entirely new." Maker Faire Detroit - this weekend at the Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation - promises to carry on the moniker of the Greatest Show (and Tell) on Earth. Hobbyists and tinkerers of all backgrounds will converge to show what they have … [Read more...]
New Checkout Process Now Enabled for (Almost) All Users
Since January, we've been quietly testing a new checkout process experience for a small subset of users. This new process has been drastically simplified, taking what used to be a 5 step (and a bit painful) process, down to just a single streamlined one-page experience. After a number of small tweaks based on user feedback, we're excited to announce that we've just released this new process to (almost) all users. If you're an OEM user, CM user, or Guest user, you'll now be presented … [Read more...]
Easily Get in Touch With Your Local Samtec Sales Rep With This New Tool
In the footer of Samtec.com, we’ve always made it easy to contact us by phone, email, or live chat (even fax back in the day!). To continue to progress this theme, you’ll now find a new helpful tool in the footer area of Samtec.com. This tool will match you up with your local FSE (Field Sales Engineer) based on your current location. Previously, to find this information was a few step process to navigate to our Locations page, find your location, and then sort through a list of names near … [Read more...]
Samtec Ranked #1 in Bishop Customer Survey for 17th Time
Bishop and Associates Survey We try to make sure the topics in this blog are helpful to our readers -- new products, new technologies, new ideas, connector design and processing issues, etc. We try to not write articles promoting Samtec. Having said that, every now and then something happens that is newsworthy but is not product-related ... Samtec recently received the highest overall rating in the Bishop & Associates’ U.S. Customer Survey of the Electronic Connector … [Read more...]
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