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...]
New 224 G Interconnect Family In A Live Product Demonstration
Emerging system requirements are driven by industry advancements in areas such as data centers, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and quantum computing, among others. Samtec 224 Gbps PAM4 interconnect systems are carefully designed to satisfy these high-performance requirements, as you’ll see in the video. Ralph Page, Systems Architect at Samtec, gives an overview of what is possibly the world’s first public demonstration of an asynchronous 224 G system. This 224 G demo is from … [Read more...]
New Connector Products and Technologies On Display At SC23
Samtec will present several cutting-edge connector product demonstrations at SC23, all designed for high-performance computing, networking, storage, and analysis. New connectors include a new 224 Gbps PAM4 mid-board cable system, as well as a proof-of-concept solution for PCIe® 7.0. There are also connector solutions for CXL 3.0, PCIe 6.0, and 112 Gbps PAM4, as well as state-of-the-art fiber optic connector systems. If you're there, stop by booth 319. Samtec products that will be live in … [Read more...]
An Optical Illusion? Maximum Signal Density and Design Flexibility
Samtec FireFly™ mid-board optical cable systems boast the industry’s leading miniature footprint, enabling maximum signal density, and of course signal integrity over longer distances. That's a good thing because designers are facing longer-reach applications, increasing bandwidths, and tighter spaces. FireFly™ mid-board optical cable assemblies provide high-performance versatility for data rates up to 28 Gbps per channel. The miniature footprint allows for higher density and closer proximity … [Read more...]
Benefits of Edge Card Connectors: Let Me Count The Ways
Benefits of Edge Card Sockets Whereas most Samtec board-to-board connectors are two-piece systems, edge card connectors provide an interface between two boards with just one connector. There are several reasons why a designer may choose an edge card socket over a two-piece system. First, edge card connectors are great for modular designs; designers can easily upgrade or configure their system by swapping out the board. Also, they make it easy to plug and unplug a mating card that … [Read more...]
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