Connectors For High Cycle, Harsh Environment Applications Let’s have a show of hands. If you specify board level interconnects, how many of you require your interconnect system to be rated at 2,500 cycles or more? Most board level interconnect applications require far less than 100 cycles over their lifetime, but obviously there are exceptions. Those exceptions range from 150 cycles to 2,500 to 10,000. If your application falls into the latter category, you should know about Samtec … [Read more...]

Samtec has more ways to connect two or more boards than any other interconnect provider.  This blog discusses board stacking interconnects that are a little different than your standard mezzanine configuration, but offer solutions when you have design constraints that can be difficult to work around. Connect Three (or more) Boards A board stacking strategy employed by many Samtec customers is “pass-through.” A common pass-through application is connecting three pcbs (or more) … [Read more...]

Many Samtec blogs discuss bleeding edge new technologies, new products, or provide guidelines on optimizing system performance. Having said that, one of our biggest selling product lines is standard pitch (2.54, 2.00, 1.27 mm) 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 systems. Samtec has … [Read more...]