Bourbon lovers appreciate their favorite spirits in many forms. Neat. On the Rocks. A favorite mixed drink. An emerging trend in bourbon drinking comes from an unlikely place: Infinite Harvest - an indoor hydroponic vertical farm. Infinite Harvest produces repeatedly consistent, high-quality popcorn shoots whose naturally sweet and buttery taste offers a perfect accent to anyone's favorite bourbon drink. Perfection! Popcorn Shoots in Winter? Using the fundamentals … [Read more...]
Multiple Connector Alignment On Mating PCBs
Design and Processing Engineers frequently contact our Interconnect Processing Group (IPG) to discuss multiple connector alignment issues on mating PCBs. Our standard response is “it’s easy, don't worry about the alignment, and we recommend you use as many mated connector sets as possible.” OK, I’m lying. The first part – that IPG receives a lot of inquiries – is true. The second part – it’s easy – is not 100% true. At times it can be complicated. When using multiple connectors per board, … [Read more...]
High Speed, Miniature Edge Card Sockets
Samtec high-speed, edge card interconnect systems are available in a variety of pitches, stack heights, and orientations. They are used just about everywhere, including computers and peripherals, telecom, datacom, industrial equipment, medical, test and measurement, instrumentation, and military and aerospace, among others. Speaking of variety, edge card socket strips are available on 0.50 mm, 0.635 mm, 0.80 mm, 1.00 mm, 1.27 mm, and 2.00 mm pitch. Orientations include vertical … [Read more...]
SEARAY High Speed, High Density Connector
SEARAY™ is a family of high speed, high density connectors. SEARAY gives designers tons of design flexibility, much more than any other array product in the connector industry. Design Flexibility SEARAY is on a 1.27 mm X 1.27 mm grid. This is an open pin field grid array, which means we don’t have pins dedicated as signal or ground. Designers can specify some pins for single-ended signals, some can be routed as differential pairs, some ground, and some for power, all on the same … [Read more...]
Micro, Rugged IDC Cable Assemblies
Samtec’s FFSD, FFMD Series are micro-pitch, high reliability, high cycle IDC cable assemblies. TIGER EYE™ CONTACT The connector systems incorporate the Tiger Eye™ contact. Tiger Eye is a rugged contact for micro pitch interconnects; it is ideal for high reliability and high mating cycle applications. Tiger Eye is reliable because it is a multi-finger design. For example, the contact on the FFSD cable assembly has four points of contact. The contact mating surface is on the flat, … [Read more...]
Samtec Interconnects In Military, Aerospace
Interconnects for the military/aerospace industry are used in a variety of applications, including communication and navigation equipment, radar, airborne, marine and space guidance control, and electronic warfare, to name a few. While Samtec products are used in commercial applications like the industrial, datacom, telecom, computer and peripheral, instrumentation, medical, and automotive industries, aerospace and military account for a significant portion of our total sales. This is … [Read more...]
High Speed Mezzanine Connectors With Integral Ground Planes
Samtec Q Strip® connectors are designed for high speed board-to-board applications where signal integrity is essential. The Q Strip connectors have surface mount signal contacts as well as a surface mount ground plane between the two rows of signals for improved electrical performance. Q Strip products are available on three different pitches: 0.50 mm pitch (QTH, QSH Series)0.80 mm pitch (QTE, QSE Series)0.635 mm pitch (QTS, QSS Series) By the way, the 0.50 mm pitch versions are … [Read more...]
12G SDI Signal Processing and Transmission Demonstration (NAB 2017)
Chris Shelly, Samtec's RF/SI Modeling Engineer, walks us through another 12G SDI product demonstration from NAB 2017. This demonstration showcases the Samtec BNC Edge Mount connector used in the Fidus® Gearbox+™ and the Phabrix® QX UHDTV 12G SDI generator/analyzer. This demonstration not only showcases the signal processing capabilities of both of these products, it also highlights the transmission of those signals through several other Samtec 75 ohm PCB connectors. Chris walks us … [Read more...]
Samtec Helps Makers “Connect”
Tinkerers, hobbyists, students and enthusiasts form the backbone of the tech-influenced DIY community known as the Maker Movement. Makers use various open-source electronic platforms as they develop interactive products ranging from robotics and drones to arts, crafts, and musical instruments. One of the challenges all developers face - from Makers to circuit designers and engineers at Tier 1 OEMs - is finding the right connector. For many, connector selection. For Makers, it … [Read more...]
Flexing Our Board Stacking Muscles
Many Samtec blogs discuss bleeding edge technologies, new products, or provide guidelines and tips on optimizing system performance. Having said that, our biggest selling product line is standard pitch (2.54, 2.00, 1.27 mm), two-piece board-to-board interconnects. These are not as sexy as using an ultra-high-density interconnect with PAM4 to achieve 56 Gbps serial channels, but they look mighty appealing if your job is to identify and design-in reliable board-to-board interconnect … [Read more...]
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