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...]
A Little Inspiration…
When looking for a new project, how ambitious should you be? Back in 2014, a group of friends came together and collaborated with Mattel toys to send a Superman into space. Combining electronic and mechanical engineering with an eclectic range of other skills, the result was a stunning example of what can be achieved when a small team of motivated individuals works together. The group had something in common - DesignSpark. DesignSpark is the engineering community of global distributor, … [Read more...]
The Smart Grid – Taking Technology Beyond the Factory
The internet of things has revolutionized so many parts of our everyday lives. In the home, our appliances are connected devices that allow us to control lighting, order groceries and provide security even when we’re not home. In the world of industry, the smart factory is changing the way that our goods are made. The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) allows manufacturers to be more responsive, reacting to changes in customer demands quickly and economically. The key to these … [Read more...]
Samtec.com Speeds up With New Virtual Hardware Updates
If you've been on Samtec.com recently, you may have noticed a performance improvement from previous levels. Over the last couple of months, we’ve been working on upgrading a few components of the back-end of Samtec.com to be more efficient. Taking advantage of some of the newest cloud architecture, we’ve upgraded our hosting to some of the newest virtual hardware available. This allows Samtec.com to run all over the world on SSDs (solid-state drives), upgraded memory, and some of the … [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...]
Here are the November 2020 Websites Updates to Samtec.com
In November we took time to do some tuning on the back-end architecture of Samtec.com, built a few new content pages, updated our product data in Solutionator, and added the ability to add End Customers in the Cart. Here are the major updates to Samtec.com for November 2020. Virtual Hardware and API Updates This change isn't visible on the website other than how it feels, but you'll definitely notice it if you're a frequent user of Samtec.com Over the last couple of months, we've … [Read more...]
Bringing Vision to the Smart Factory
Embedded vision systems are becoming part of everyday life. The development of autonomous cars has caught the headlines, and the use of visual systems will play a key role in their future success. Embedded vision will be combined with other sensors to provide guidance for the vehicle. Systems such as lidar (light direction and ranging) will measure distance, and the embedded vision systems will provide object recognition. With this technology, the vehicle will be able to … [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...]
Rise of the Machines
Rise of the Machines is a description, a title, and a path. I know, this title might seem worn out, and sound dystopian at the core but I promise in this case it is a good thing. Automation is being used from start to finish in many companies, and it shouldn't be a surprise that Samtec utilizes automated processes in a lot of areas as well. So why use Automation? Well, there are several reasons that a company might choose to employ automation. For instance, in a highly repetitive task … [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...]
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