We are faced with choices all day long – some easy and some hard. It can be overwhelming when the options are numerous and any research on the internet is bottomless. Books, talks and conferences offer a variety of tools and approaches promising to make the decision making process easier, but I’m pretty sure that’s just one more decision we have to make. Samtec offers the largest variety of high-speed board-to-board and backplane interconnects in the industry. With so many options, … [Read more...]
The New 2024 Catalog
It’s the best time of the year – the holidays are coming and Samtec’s new 2024 catalog is here! It features over 50 new product series, so get out your pens and start circling what’s going on your Christmas list! The catalog is categorized by six Solution Blocks – High-Speed Board-to-Board, High-Speed Cable, Optics, RF, Rugged/Power and Flexible Stacking. Rugged/Power received the largest overhaul from the previous catalog with the addition of Ultra Rugged products. Ideal for … [Read more...]
New High-Speed Cable Guide
Who doesn’t love a care package? Open a box from someone you know and find a surprise inside. In college, my aunt used to send me the best sugar cookies – very helpful for enticing friends to study with you. Similar to a care package from someone you know, Samtec just released a new High-Speed Cable Design Guide full of new products, technologies and roadmap items (sorry, no cookies this time). The Guide highlights Samtec’s innovation for next generation architectures – Flyover®, HDR, … [Read more...]
Should I Use a PCB or Cable Backplane?
Selecting a backplane design requires tradeoffs specific to a particular network topology and application. In some cases, the assessment of PCB vs cable backplane is not an “either/or” but a combination approach. This blog post, based on a conversation with Samtec’s Andrew Josephson, Brandon Gore, and Jonathan Sprigler, aims to answer some of the most common questions that come up when deciding should I use a PCB or cable backplane for a high-speed design? How do the two approaches compare on … [Read more...]
Samtec Expands Channelyzer™ to Support Backplane Applications
Samtec continues to expand its capabilities in support of backplane connector applications. In addition to our recent announcement with Amphenol, we continue to augment the ecosystem of support required for these high-speed, high-performance products. When we announced the initial release of Channelyzer™ - Samtec's Online Full Channel Simulation and Analysis tool - earlier this year, the tool initially supported only high-speed board-to-board applications. We … [Read more...]