Nvidia had its annual GTC gathering of AI developers, fans, media, and gamers recently. The newly announced Nvidia Blackwell platform is scheduled for release in late 2024/early 2025. Blackwell will likely lead to another round of "world domination" - I say that tongue in cheek - for the Nvidia. One thing that struck me is the raw performance the Nvidia GPUs support. Imagine the engineering that goes into develeoping signal channels for the HBM, NVLink, PCIe, CXL, and numerous other … [Read more...]
Cutting Edge Copper and Optical Interconnects at OFC 2024
OFC, the Optical Fiber Communications Conference, is all about optical networking and communications. Samtec was front and center showcasing 224 Gbps PAM4 solutions, next-generation transceivers for optical and copper, CXL-over-optics, and PCIe 6.0 solutions, just to name a few. If you weren't at the show, here's a quick tour of the product and technology demonstrations at our booth. Future Proof Optical Interconnects Samtec’s new Halo™ system is a future-proof, next-generation … [Read more...]
How to Design Component Launches Faster
Designing and optimizing a breakout region (or component launch) for a connector can be challenging. It often requires multiple back and forth iterations and analysis to adjust variables. Samtec’s new SIBORGTM (Signal Integrity Breakout Region Guru) is a free tool that works with Ansys HFSS 3D Layout to generate, visualize, optimize, and develop PCB package and component breakout regions (BORs), enabling Samtec customers to design component launches faster. SIBORG was initially intended to be … [Read more...]
Good Optics: High-Performance, High-Density Active Optical Connector Systems
Samtec showcased several high-performance, high-density active optical connector systems at DesignCon 2024. These were in addition to a booth full of Samtec Flyover® copper cable solutions rated at 224 and 112 Gbps PAM4 data rates, as well as RF test and measurement systems. New CXL Over Fiber CXL is based on the PCI Express specification physical and electrical interface. CXL enables cache coherency between the CPU and attached devices, such as accelerators, GPUs, or memory … [Read more...]
New Rugged, High-Speed Twinax Cable Solutions
High-Speed Twinax Cable Solutions To 224 and 112 Gbps PAM4 At DesignCon 2024, Samtec had several live product demonstrations showing a wide variety of Samtec Flyover® cable solutions, all with excellent performance at 224 and 112 Gbps PAM4 data rates. One thing they have in common is Samtec’s Eye Speed®, ultra-low skew twinax cable. Eye Speed is Samtec’s proprietary, co-extruded twinax cable that optimizes signal integrity, bandwidth, and reach. Because of our unique manufacturing process, … [Read more...]
New 224 Gbps PAM4 Interconnect Solutions With Impressive Performance
Samtec next-generation connector solutions are designed to meet the challenges of 224 Gbps PAM4 architectures. At DesignCon 2024, Samtec had five product demonstrations and displays showcasing our 224 Gbps products. Many incorporated Si-Fly HD™, our new chip adjacent (or on-package) Samtec Flyover® Cable system. In the video above, Jonathan Sprigler, High-Speed Product Manager at Samtec, walks you through some of the 224 Gbps demos and displays in the Samtec booth. First, Jonathan … [Read more...]
New Front Panel, 112 Gbps PAM4 Cable Solution
Samtec has 10 connector systems – both cable-to-board and board-to-board -- that achieve outstanding performance at 112 Gbps PAM4 data rates. The 112 G cable systems are Samtec Flyover® solutions that are designed for mid-board, mid-board to front-panel, mid-board to back-panel, and panel-to-panel configurations. (Here's a link if you want to learn more about the benefits of Samtec Flyover) In this video, Matt Burns, Director of Technical Marketing, walks us through a live demonstration of a … [Read more...]
CXL 3.0 AI Emulation Platform With Excellent Performance at 64 GT/s
Popular topics at SC23 included Exascale and quantum computing, AI and machine learning, and cybersecurity, among others. CXL is one of those hot topics. Largely used by designers of data center servers, supercomputers, and enterprise computing systems for applications like AI and machine learning, CXL enables cache coherency between CPUs and external devices. CXL 3.0 leverages PCIe® 6.0 electrical and physical layers at 64 GT/s. It also improves latency in memory … [Read more...]
COM-HPC 1.2 Specification Defines New COM-HPC Mini Form Factor
"I shall call him . . . Mini-Me." Fans of 1990s pop culture know that line forever changed the Austin Powers movie trilogy. All the same traits and qualities of the origial in one-eighth the size. Decades later, "Mini-Me" is still a part of the English lexicon. 1990s movie trilogies do not typically influence the technical development of industry standards. Yet, the latest PICMG COM-HPC 1.2 specification certainly tries. ;) A new, small form factor - COM-HPC Mini - targeted at high-growth … [Read more...]
New Proof-of-Concept High-Speed Cable Solution Performs At 128 GT/s
The upcoming PCIe® 7.0 specification is intended to enable 128 GT/s data rates. It continues PCIe’s trend of double speeds every generation. According to PCI-SIG, "PCIe 7.0 technology is targeted to be a scalable interconnect solution for data-intensive markets like Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning, Data Center, HPC, Automotive, IoT, and Military/Aerospace."(1) PCIe 7.0 is targeted for release in 2025, and it probably won’t be in devices until 2027. But, at SC 23 in Denver, Samtec … [Read more...]
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