Prime vacation (or holiday) season is in full gear. Travel spots range from the beach to cultural attractions in the latest "hot spots". Whether sunning in the Côte d'Azur or hiking in the Andes, everybody's focus is their . . . smart phone? Really? For (almost) everybody, the latest moment MUST be shared on social media. What happens when no connection is available? Panic! Fortunately, connectivity is almost everywhere. Just ask the closest teenager! What does this have to do … [Read more...]
Samtec Showcases AI/ML Interconnect Demonstration at PCI-SIG Conference
The PCI-SIG Developers Conference is a free event for the 800+ member companies that develop and bring to market new products utilizing PCI Express® technology. Granted most people reading this blog won't be at the conference, but you might be interested in learning more about Samtec's demos and Technical Sessions. Demonstrations Scalable 32 GT/s Silicon Test Platform: This is a demonstration of configurable, next-generation GPU-based system combining a cable mesh … [Read more...]
An Eye Catching High Performance Test Point System
Samtec Bulls Eye® test point systems are ideal for high-performance test applications because of their compression interfaces, small footprint, and high cycle count capabilities. Bulls Eye is now available in 50 GHz and 20 GHz designs, with a system up to 70 GHz in development. Bulls Eye is a popular product because: The grid design and smaller footprint enables smaller evaluation boards and shorter trace lengths. The high-density array design significantly saves PCB space compared to … [Read more...]
New Optical FMC+ Module Supports Extended Temperature Ranges
Readers of the Samtec blog are familiar with the benefits of FMC and FMC+. These popular interfaces define a compact electro-mechanical expansion interface for a daughter card to an FPGA baseboard or other device with re-configurable I/O capability. VITA 57.1 has been around for some time. It supports 10 full-duplex transceivers running at 10 Gbps. The new VITA 57.4 standard defines two new connectors. Combined, they offer 32 full-duplex transceivers running at 28 Gbps. New … [Read more...]
Rugged, High Bandwidth Interconnects Save Space On PCB
Edge Rate®, one of Samtec’s most popular high speed, high bandwidth interconnect systems, also saves space on your PCB. Edge Rate is both the name of the contact system and the product family. The contact system is designed for high speed, high cycle, rugged applications. With some connectors, the mating edge of the contact is the cut edge of the pin (but not Edge Rate!). If you look at the edge of the pin under a microscope you may see micro burrs and edges. This reduces the life of … [Read more...]
English Guy (Who Thinks He’s James Bond) Demos 56 Gbps System With 5.8 Tbps Throughput
Samtec’s Active Product Demonstrator proves 56 Gbps PAM4 based systems are fully realizable today. It’s a state-of-the-art prototype combining high-performance interconnects from Samtec and bleeding edge Credo silicon. All interconnect and silicon shown are available. The Demonstrator internally generates over 100 independent channels of signal data using Credo mixed-signal 56 Gbps PAM4 SERDES Bald Eagle silicon. Each signal generated is QPRBS 31, 56 Gbps PAM4 data, equivalent to 5.8 Tbps of … [Read more...]
New Signal, Power Edge Card Connector
The HSEC8 series, a high-speed edge card socket on .8 mm pitch, is our most popular edge card connector, and one of our biggest selling products series. New Signal, Power Card Edge Connector A recently released option on the HSEC8 is a signal, power card edge combo connector. The HSEC8-PV is available with one or two banks of power pins. Each bank contains two power pins, and each bank is rated up to 60 amps. Through-hole tails on the power pins are designed for .062” (1.60 mm) and .093” … [Read more...]
Shielded Interconnects For Industrial Applications
Samtec continues to expand its line of shielded interconnects, both board-to-board and cable-to-board systems. These are used in a variety of industries and applications, one being industrial equipment. Shielded interconnects are a good thing because EMI is a four-letter word for most designers. I do and don't mean that literally, although I do know there are three types of people in this world: those who can count and those who can't. Anyway, not to be Captain Obvious, but most … [Read more...]
High Speed Interconnect Demos At Electronica 2018
Samtec's full line of high speed interconnect products was on display and in demonstrations at Electronica 2018. Focus products included high speed mezzaninehigh speed cable assemblieshigh speed backplane connectorsactive optical cable assemblies Two of the demos that caught a lot of attention were the 28 G Product Demonstrator and the REFLEX CES Sargon Stratix 10 FPGA FMC+ IDK. 28 G Product Demonstrator In this video, Samtec's Neil Potter walks us through the 28 G … [Read more...]
New Products, New Technologies, New Location At Electronica
Samtec is presenting new products and new technologies at Electronica 2018, as well as our full line of interconnects including High Speed Board-to-Board, High Speed Cable Assemblies, Micro/Rugged, Flexible Stacking, Optics and Precision RF. We are in a new location this year: we’re still in Hall B3, but we’re now at Stand 129, across from Molex. If you're at Electronica stop by and visit. If you're not in Munich you may still be interested in some of the new products we … [Read more...]
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