One of Samtec’s many live product demonstrations at OFC 2022 shows high-performance copper and optical cable assemblies performing equally well, whether in immersion cooling or in typical convection environments. Ralph Page, Systems Architect at Samtec, explains the setup and results of this incredibly popular demo. The demo consists of two identical Samtec product demonstration boards. They…
Ralph Page, Systems Architect at Samtec, walks us through a live product demonstration combining Microchip’s META-DX1 family of Ethernet PHYs with Samtec ExaMAX® backplane cable systems. Samtec ExaMAX backplane cable systems improve signal integrity and routability using Samtec Flyover® high-speed cable technology, which routes signals above a lossy PCB using Eye Speed® co-extruded, ultra-low skew…
OFC 2022 is back and in-person (and online). Primarily for data center and telecom professionals, it’s a showcase of solutions in network equipment and software, active and passive components, test and manufacturing equipment, data center/IT products, cable and fibre. This year OFC boasts over 100 technical sessions, 120 invited speakers, and 500+ technical peer-reviewed presentations….
The full PCIe® 6.0 specification in nearing completion. The latest 0.9 version provides details on increased system data rate to 64 GT/s, doubling the throughput from PCIe 5.0. Additionally, the latest version further explains PAM4 encoding, FLIT-based encoding, and low-latency FEC to improve bandwidth efficiency. In this video, Ralph Page, System Architect at Samtec, walks…
This video, from the AI Hardware Summit, shows a prototypical Gen-Z PECFF demonstration based on PCIe 6.0, at 64 GT/s. It shows PCB connectors and twinax cable systems, with performance capabilities eminently suitable for AI hardware applications. It’s a Gen-Z backplane with Gen-Z Add-In-Cards (AIC) with top card connectivity. This emulates industry standard AI Acceleration…
Samtec Flyover® Twinax Cable assemblies allow designers to extend signal reach and density, enabling 112 Gbps PAM4 performance. Samtec Flyover systems are commonly used in mid-board applications, with a cable assembly connector located next to the chip. The signal path is directed to the front or back panel. Samtec Flyover also allows designers to go from one…
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…
As we put 2020 in the rear view mirror, it’s always a good time to look back. Here is a quick recap of a cool event: OCP Tech Week. In early November Scott Noteboom, CTO of Submer, presented on the topic, “Out of Sight Project: The Blind Mate Network Backplane.” Scott’s presentation utilized Samtec’s ExaMAX®…
Readers of the Samtec blog know we are always talking about next-gen speed. Current channels rates are running at 56 Gbps PAM4. However, system designers are starting to look at 112 Gbps PAM4 data rates. Intuition would say that bleeding edge data rates like 112 Gbps PAM4 only occur in the data center. Why might…
EDI CON Online: Where High Frequency Meets High Speed The tagline of the event stays the same in 2020. Why mess with a good thing? Why change what is working? As with last year, EDI CON Online aims to bring RF, microwave, EMC/EMI, high-speed digital design and system integrator technologists together virtually. Why? For networking,…
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