Communication. There are hundreds of books about the various types, styles and strategies. You can earn degrees in the study of it. It’s a life skill everyone must learn, and there is a constant pursuit for ways to more effectively communicate. The PCI Express® standard can help with effective communication, but just for electronic devices instead of people - you'll still need to buy that book. This standard creates a connection for high bandwidth communication between a PCI Express® device … [Read more...]
You are Hot Stuff! An Intro to Thermal Management.
Being called Hot Stuff in a technical field is not always the first thing you hear unless something is actually on fire! You know though, it should be! Here you are reading a technical blog on Thermal Management techniques and designing products that some people may never fully see or understand. Take it from this S.T.U.D. (who gets to make up his own title for the video). You are doing great stuff, people like your work, and gosh you are Hot Stuff! In this blog, we will take a look at … [Read more...]
Outstanding Performance: Microchip META-DX1 Ethernet PHY, Front Panel QSFP-DD
Industry leading ICs, like the Microchip® META-DX1, combined with products like Samtec’s FQSFP-DD cable solutions, provide an ideal proof-of-concept for front panel QSFP-DD data center communication system architectures. META-DX1 is a 1.2 Terabit Ethernet PHY with long reach 56G PAM4 SerDes, and features such as MACsec encryption, FlexE, and nanosecond-level PTP timestamping accuracy. With support for Ethernet rates from 1 to 400 GE, 48 Serdes, and integrated crosspoint, META-DX1 enables a … [Read more...]
Embedded Compute Modules in Automotive Design
Modern vehicles, whether family cars or heavy transportation, are growing in sophistication. Manufacturers are constantly developing new technologies for safety and convenience, from regenerative braking to the very latest head-up displays. With the huge growth in the demand for electric vehicles and the prospect of autonomous cars closer than ever, the architecture of electronic systems within cars is under pressure. Electronic Control Units For many years, manufacturers introduced … [Read more...]
OFC 2022: New Products, Technologies, Demonstrations
OFC 2022 is back and in-person (and online). Primarily for data center and telecom professionals, it's a showcase of solutions in network equipment and software, active and passive components, test and manufacturing equipment, data center/IT products, cable and fibre. This year OFC boasts over 100 technical sessions, 120 invited speakers, and 500+ technical peer-reviewed presentations. And the epicenter of OFC 2022 is booth 2309, the Samtec booth. If you only have time for one … [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...]
European Tradeshows in 2022
Tradeshows, exhibitions, and conventions have been the lifeblood of our industry for many decades. They offered an opportunity to meet customers and learn about new products, an opportunity that was impossible to replicate before the birth of the internet. While digital media have eroded their unique position in the industry somewhat, they still provided a face-to-face forum in which to share information that was valuable to suppliers and customers alike. The last 24 months have a difficult … [Read more...]
C-V2X Technology in the Automotive World
There is a new acronym that is being used in the world of automotive design, and that is C-V2X. In conversation, this is referred to as vehicle-to-X, or sometimes vehicle to everything. The leading “C” stands for cellular. These phrases are used to describe the latest vehicle-based electronics that is taking advantage of the cellular communications network. In particular, the 5G network that is being rolled out is allowing vehicles to communicate with other road users – the “X” or … [Read more...]
New ChalkTalk Features 56 Gbps PAM4 Interconnects for FPGA Applications
FPGAs, SoCs and other flexible, configurable and reprogrammable compute engines are redefining embedded computing architectures. While prevalent in Data Centers, ASIC Emulation, and High-Performance Computing, FPGAs are the beating electronic hearts of many emerging Transportation, Medical Imaging, Process Automation and Industrial Vision embedded computing applications. In many FPGA-based designs, the choice of a connector solution can be a crucial element in your system design. The … [Read more...]
Access Samtec Solution Blocks Straight From the Homepage
Samtec Solution Blocks support a variety of different interconnect needs across a wide array of industries, regardless of application, performance requirements, or environment. We created our Solution Blocks a couple of years back to help customers navigate through the more popular products that we offer. These Solution Blocks are: High-Speed Board-to-Board: These include two-piece mezzanine, high-density arrays, high-speed edge cards, and backplane systems designed to optimize signal … [Read more...]
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