Shielded Connectors For EMI, EMC Protection Samtec is expanding its line of rugged, high-speed 0.80 mm pitch Edge Rate® interconnects. First is a mating set with both socket (ERF8 Series) and terminal (ERM8 Series) strips that are fully shielded. The shield encircles the entire mated connector system (a full 360ᵒ) to minimize the effects of EMI and EMC. A 16 mm mated stack height will be released first, with 10 and 14 mm stacks to follow. The 12 mm stack with shielding is already … [Read more...]
Samtec Flyover QSFP In Xilinx VCU118 (OFC 2017)
Kevin Burt, of the Samtec Optical Group, explains another one of the several demos that Samtec presented at OFC 2017. In this demo, four GT 28 Gbps transceiver signals are generated by an FPGA and launched mid-board from a FireFly™ 28 G x4 optical connector system. These 28 Gbps signals then “flyover” the board through a FQSFP twinax cable assembly, to the port, and loop back over the same path, where they are received by the FPGA. The Flyover™ QSFP28 … [Read more...]
Samtec Updates Silicon-to-Silicon Web Experience
Samtec released Silicon-to-Silicon™ System Optimization Microsite in early 2016. This one-stop shop summarizes all of Samtec’s Silicon-to-Silicon™ System Optimization capabilities. It provides engineers the service, products, tools and resources to optimize the entire signal chain of a system, from bare die to IC package and assembly, to PCB, connectors and cable assemblies, and back again. The updated and streamlined Silicon-to-Silicon™ System Optimization web experience is now … [Read more...]
Get Embedded With Samtec at Embedded World 2017
All things embedded will be on display at Embedded World 2017 in Nuremberg, Germany, 14-16 March. The show has 900+ exhibitions and over 30,000 visitors. And of course Samtec will be there. If you're not lucky enough to make it to Nuremberg -- the white sausage center-of-the-universe -- below is a quick preview of some products that are popular in embedded technology designs. From standard PC/104, to high-bandwidth mid-plane systems, to every type of two-piece mezzanine … [Read more...]
Samtec Demos Flyover QSFP In Xilinx VCU118 Demonstration Board At DesignCon 2017
One of several demonstrations at DesignCon 2017 shows the variety of Samtec interconnects supporting the Xilinx® Virtex® UltraScale+ FPGA VCU118 Development Kit. Included in the kit is an FMC+ Active Loopback Card, which carries Samtec's direct attach Flyover™ QSFP28. In the Flyover QSFP28 demonstration, four GT 28 Gbps transceiver signals are generated by the FPGA and launched mid-board from the FireFly™ connector system. These 28 Gbps signals “flyover” the board … [Read more...]
Samtec Demonstrates PCIe® Over Fiber in Disaggregated Computing Applications
In this video, Kevin Burt of Samtec’s Optical Group explains one of Samtec’s product demonstrations at DesignCon 2017. The demo features a disaggregated computing platform with PCIe® Gen 3 fabric enabled by the patented FireFly™ mid-board optical technology. PCIe® Over Fiber PCIe® over Fiber technologies enable new and emerging HPC and Data Center architectures. Traditional systems place GPUs and system storage as close to the server and CPU as possible … [Read more...]
Flyover QSFP28 For 56+ Gbps Applications
At DesignCon 2017, Jim Nadolny, Samtec's Principle SI and EMI Engineer, presented(1) a technical paper entitled “Design of Flyover QSFP28 (FQSFP Series) for 56+ Gbps Applications.” This white paper discusses the Flyover QSFP (FQSFP) approach for 56+ Gbps applications to overcome the limitations from the large loss on typical QSFP ports with surface mount to PCB traces. By replacing the PCB traces to twinax cables, they achieved 7 dB lower insertion loss at 40 GHz -- compared to … [Read more...]
7 Reasons To Visit Samtec At DesignCon (Number 5 Will Blow Your Mind)
DesignCon 2017 is next week in San Jose, California. If you're going to be there, here are 7 reasons to visit us at booth 717. They're all good reasons, and #5 is really cool, but it may not actually blow your mind. Sorry. Like me, you've probably seen the "sponsored articles" at the bottom of other websites. I read some research that people like to read lists, and making some kind of outlandish prediction about one of the items further improves SEO. So I … [Read more...]
Samtec Helps Avnet Make 2016 “Hot”
At the end of every year, avid readers, editors, engineers, and fellow electronics nerds of EDN magazine vote on their top 100 products. From DACs to smart cameras, debug software to single-board computers, all aspects of the electronic world are fair game in EDN's Hot 100. Avnet Recognized in Hot 100 Recently, it was announced that two of Avnet's design solutions, its 10-Inch Touch Display Demonstration Kit and MicroZed Industrial IoT Starter Kit, were included in the … [Read more...]
VME (VITA) Expansion: Moving the Connector Industry Forward
In order to better understand the massive impact the VME (VITA) standard family has had in the electronics industry, it is helpful to review its past successes, its present values, and its plans for the future. A Brief History Lesson Since its conception in 1982, VITA has continued to focus on marketing, expansion, and integration within the connector world. Its primary focus was creating open standards for an open world. What’s an open standard you ask? An open … [Read more...]