Steve Groothuis, CTO of Samtec Microelectronics, in one of many panelists presenting at the Advanced Packaging Forum during SEMICON West next week at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, CA. The Advanced Packaging Forum gathers executives, university researchers, engineers, R+D personnel, program managers and other technology experts across the IC packaging and assembly industry. Attendees you will learn about some of the latest assembly and packaging technologies—wafer-level … [Read more...]
Samtec Launches Silicon-to-Silicon™ System Optimization Microsite
Increasing data rates, denser systems and shrinking product footprints challenge designers to meet their system signal integrity needs. Samtec’s Silicon-to-Silicon™ System Optimization capabilities provide 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, to connectors and cable assemblies, and back again. Gaining access to all of these capabilities can be daunting for those not familiar … [Read more...]
Samtec Releases Z-Ray® Application Design Guide
Interposers have a long history in microelectronics packaging. Legacy interposers help connect small pitch ICs or silicon die to wider pitch sockets or packages. While this approach started with the earliest PC MCUs, many common ICs, including FPGAs, NAND, DDR and others, use BGA packages as an interposer. As IC pin and solder-ball pitches have decreased, interposer adoption in various applications continues to increase. Highly complex consumer devices require high density, low … [Read more...]
Micro Array Interposers For High Density, Low Profile Board-to-Board and IC-to-Board Applications
Samtec Z-Ray™ is an array of embedded contacts used as interposers for board stacking, IC-to-board, and cable-to-board applications. These micro array interposers are ultra-high density, low profile, highly customizable solutions for complex IC-to-board applications. Z-Ray™ incorporates spring temper BeCu (Beryllium Copper) micro-formed contacts that are assembled into rugged low profile FR4 substrates under high pressure and temperature. Z-Ray™ is tested to 2,500 cycles and is available … [Read more...]