We all know the widespread havoc that Covid-19 wreaked in 2020. While the electronics industry in general, and connectors in particular, took an initial hit, the industry rebounded in the second half of 2020 and is rolling into 2021. Travel came to an almost stand-still in 2020, and the industry was quick to respond by converting in-person exhibitions, conferences, and shows to virtual events. In the U.S., many conferences are returning to live venues this summer. China has hosted several … [Read more...]
New High Speed Connector System: 56 Gbps PAM4 SI Evaluation Demonstration
Here's a live product demonstration of a new high speed connector system which achieves excellent SI results while running at 56 Gbps PAM4. Jean-Remy Bonnefoy, Systems Engineer at Samtec, explains how Samtec partnered with Credo for this active product demonstration. Credo’s mixed signal 56 Gbps PAM4 Bald Eagle 2 silicon generates two bi-directional channels of QPRBS-31 signal data at 56 Gbps PAM4. The differential signals travel through 2" of traces on a MEG4 PCB, to a Samtec … [Read more...]
Samtec Flyover® Technology Lowers HFT Latency
“Greed is good!” – Gordon Gecko “Bulls. Bears. People from Connecticut.” – Jerry Seinfeld “Bulls make money, bears make money, pigs get slaughtered.” – Wall Street adage popularized by Jim Cramer Ask anyone about the stock market, and they likely have an opinion as different as these three quotes. Yet, most individual’s retirement plan, pension or individual investments are likely tied up in Wall Street, The City, Zurich or some other investment hub. Additionally, the COVID-19 … [Read more...]
New 56 Gbps PAM4 Connector SI Evaluation Kit Demo
Ralph Page, Systems Architect at Samtec, walks us through a live product demonstration of a Samtec high-speed connector running at 56 Gbps PAM4, with incredible performance. It can also be run up to 28 Gbps NRZ. This active product demonstration uses a Xilinx® Virtex® UltraScale+ 56 Gbps PAM4 VCU 129 FPGA Evaluation Kit. The connector we’re evaluating is a Samtec HSEC8-DP. It’s a micro-pitch, high-speed edge card connector, for differential pair configurations. Check-out HSEC8-DV … [Read more...]
Gen-Z Enables Heterogeneous Computing Networks
Digitization! Everyday, more of our daily life - work, play, sleep, food, entertainment and more - seems to have an online component. The coronavirus pandemic has accelerated the digitization trend - "Zoom me!" However, digitization has been ongoing for decades. A foundation of daily digitization goes back to Moore's law. CPUs are denser and faster than ever before. Computing networks based on x86 system architectures live on in laptops, workstations, servers and any number of embedded … [Read more...]
New COM-HPC Connectors Increase Density and Speed
The embedded world 2021 DIGITAL exhibition and conference recently concluded. A hot topic was the introduction of the PICMG® (PCI Industrial Computer Manufacturers Group) COM-HPC® standard. COM-HPC® The COM-HPC standard is intended to coexist with the existing COM Express® standard. COM-HPC supports two different module types – one for high performance computing and one for embedded computing. COM-HPC improves on what is achievable in COM Express today. It uses a new high-speed connector … [Read more...]
PCIe 4.0 Over Fiber Solutions in Embedded Computing Applications
"Do you know how FAST you were going?!?" That question strikes fear in almost all teenage drivers. The resulting ticket dashes any hope of a fun weekend. Plus, what happens when the parents find out?? No!!! Meanwhile, embedded and optical engineers may wonder the same thing. "PCIe 3.0 only gets to 8 GT/s? I need more speed!" So what's the answer? PCIe 4.0 over fiber solutions, of course. Why PCIe 4.0 Over Fiber? Any number high-performance, embedded applications are looking for … [Read more...]
Samtec Launches New ChalkTalk Webcasts
"I need more . . ." That phrase can end in a number of ways. For Trekkies, James T. Kirk would tell Montgomery Scott "power". Gordon Gecko and other Wall Streeters would say "money" of "greed". Pete "Maverick" Mitchell would say "speed". What about engineers? They are likely to say "knowledge", "tools" or "product info". At least, that's what Samtec blogs think engineers would say. In that vein, Samtec and our partners (We love you, Mouser!) have released a number of new Chalk Talk … [Read more...]
PLDA Establishes PCIe 5.0 Link Via Samtec PCIE-G5 Connector
PCI Express® is taking over the world! Or maybe it just seems that way. PCIe® - born as PCI® - started as a simple CPU-to-I/O controller interconnect more than 20 years ago. Today, it is one of three interfaces (Ethernet and DDRx are the others) common in almost all computing platforms. Current and future system design are focused on leveraging the 32 GT/s lane performance of PCIe 5.0. Many development solutions - from IP, silicon and eval kits - are coming to the market. PLDA PCIe … [Read more...]
Impedance Corrected De-Embedding Verifies Connector Performance
We just started our next round of gEEk® spEEk online seminars. gEEk spEEk is a series of free online seminars covering a wide-range of SI-related topics, all commercial-free. Stefaan Sercu, Samtec Signal Integrity R&D Engineer, recently presented "Impedance Corrected De-Embedding," which discussed the advantages of impedance corrected de-embedding over standard 2X through de-embedding. I spoke to Stefaan about the main take-aways of his popular gEEk spEEk topic. Here's what he had to … [Read more...]
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