Anritsu and Samtec teamed up at DesignCon 2026 and demonstrated how Anritsu’s scalable, production-ready signal integrity test equipment can characterize large numbers of Samtec high-speed interconnect paths. In this brief video, Krishna Krishore (Anritsu) and Matt Burns (Samtec) review the products and processes in the live demonstration. Anritsu Scalable Signal Solution The demo showcased Anritsu’s…
DesignCon 2026 once again showcased systems, equipment, and components capable of powering the next-generation bandwidth required for artificial intelligence, co-packaged optics, hyperscale data centers, routers, switches, and high-performance computing (HPC), among other applications. And once again, Samtec was front and center with a variety of live product demonstrations of 448, 224, and 112 Gbps PAM4….
The embedded computing industry has reached a major milestone with the ratification of the ANSI/VITA 90 (VNX+) family of standards. Announced on February 19, 2026, by VITA, this new standard represents a significant leap forward in compact, rugged, high‑performance embedded design. Samtec interconnects were selected for the VNX+ VITA 90 standard to improve signal integrity,…
As I type (and yes, I am typing; this is not an AI-generated blog), PCIe 7.0, version 0.9, is now available to PCI-SIG members. PCIe 7.0® offers a 2x bandwidth boost over PCIe 6.0, reaching 128 GT/s raw bit rates. PCIe 7.0 addresses the growing demand for faster data transfer rates and lower latency, particularly…
224 Gbps PAM4; CXL over optics; 112 Gbps PAM4 cable with excellent performance while subjected to dynamic flexing; 800 G; 90 GHz test and validation solutions. Samtec showcased a variety of live product demonstrations — both copper and optical — at DesignCon 2024. This included a boatload of Samtec Flyover® cable systems rated at 224…
“Teamwork makes the dream work,” may be cliché, but in the case of the technology partnership that developed between Oxide Computer and Samtec, it applies. In an Oxide and Friends podcast , Bryan Cantrill, Co-founder and CTO of Oxide Computer Company, sums the experience up this way: “a perfect partnership, a model partnership—innovating together.” This…
Selecting a backplane design requires tradeoffs specific to a particular network topology and application. In some cases, the assessment of PCB vs cable backplane is not an “either/or” but a combination approach. This blog post, based on a conversation with Samtec’s Andrew Josephson, Brandon Gore, and Jonathan Sprigler, aims to answer some of the most…
“I’m lovin’ it.” “Can you hear me now?” “Just do it.” “Where High Frequency Meets High Speed” The first three taglines are a part of pop culture lexicon. The last describes an annual technology event – EDICON Online 2022 – focused on training and informing engineers on that latest high-performance technologies, solutions, trends and design…
This live demonstration from DesignCon 2022 shows six of Samtec’s 112 Gbps PAM4 connector systems. It includes board-to-board connector sets, as well as two Samtec Flyover® cable systems. One is a mid-board to cable backplane configuration, and the other is mid-board to front panel. These cable systems are emulating real-world data center system architectures. Each board…
This live product demonstration from OFC 2022 emulates real-world AI system architectures, based on the PECFF form factor. It incorporates a PECFF backplane with PECFF add-in-cards. Matt Burns, Technical Marketing Manager at Samtec, walks us through the demonstration. He explains that we’re comparing the performance of two backplane architectures. The first is a traditional rigid…
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