Samtec and Amphenol® Aerospace recently announced a partnership to incorporate Samtec’s FireFly™ optical cable platform with Amphenol® Aerospace’s bulkhead interconnects for rugged optic solutions. Click here to read the official press release.
FireFly™
Samtec’s FireFly™ is a mid-board cable and optical interconnect system. FireFly™ is incredibly dense, and it enables chip-to-chip, board-to-board, and system-to-board connectivity using the same connector system for both copper and optical applications.
Great Combination
This partnership with Amphenol® Aerospace is great because designers frequently request rugged bulkhead solutions (38999, IP67, IP68, etc.) to be paired with FireFly™. Or, as the press release says, combining FireFly™ with Amphenol Aerospace’s D38999 with embedded 12, 24, and 48 channel MT components “is a great combination to support both company’s customers.”
This combination becomes even more pertinent with our soon-to-be-released Extended Temperature FireFly™. This new FireFly™, the ETUO Series, operates from -40ᵒ C to +85ᵒ C at 10 Gbps per channel. It will have x4 and x12 architectures, while still benefiting from the FireFly platform’s industry leading density. Click here to learn more about the ETUO Series. By the way, FireFly™ passed Operational Shock and Vibration per Mil Standard 810G.
FireFly™ Applications
FireFly is becoming popular with military, aerospace, and industrial customers because of its speed, size, density, light weight, ease of system assembly, ease of trace routing based on the pcb receptacles, and future-proof flexibility. Other industries and end-products that can incorporate FireFly is high performance computing (HPC), servers, test equipment, telecom, networking switches and routers, storage and data centers, medical, and video/high resolution imaging.