“The good news is, Samtec has more ways to stack two or more PC boards than anybody else in the connector industry,” I told a Designer when asked about our two-piece, pin-and-socket board stacking connector sets. Usually, the "bad news" follows the "good news." But the second sentence was, “The good news is, Samtec has the industry's best online tool to select the best board stacking connector set for your application. Not just one product series, but the complete part numbers to the … [Read more...]
Need Secure PCB Stacking? You Can Be Sure.
When mating two or more printed circuit boards (PCBs), what’s the easiest way to be certain you have a robust, reliable, secure PCB stacking connection? The answer is often to use a precision board stacking standoff, especially in high shock and vibration environments. Samtec’s SureWare™ ultra-rugged hardware family includes several varieties of board stacking standoffs, each with their own unique features and benefits. However, ALL are designed to work with Samtec high-speed, high-density … [Read more...]
Board Stacking Connectors: The Industry’s Largest Variety and Most Design Flexibility
In recent months, the Samtec blog has updated you on our new 224 Gbps PAM4 high-speed cable system, a new CXL over fiber solution, mid-board optical and cable systems that boast the industry’s leading miniature footprint, and carrying analog, digital, and power in one connector, among many others. So what bleeding-edge technology are we going to introduce with great fanfare to kick off the new year? Two-piece, pin and socket board stacking connectors, of course! I understand if you don’t … [Read more...]
Full-Featured Parametric Search Now Available on Samtec.com – Solutionator 2.0 Has Been Launched
With trillions (yes, trillions) of different part combinations available, it makes perfect sense that the #1 request from Samtec.com web users over the last couple of years has been a parametric search. This feedback from one customer said it best. With the release of our original Solutionator, we brought many of the features requested above to Samtec.com. The drawback was, we needed to split it into several smaller data sets for performance reasons, which limited filtering options. … [Read more...]