Next-gen video broadcast and Pro AV systems are increasingly becoming IP-based systems. Video-over-IP and Video-over-Ethernet both leverage economies of scale of packet-based systems in the data center. Video-over-IP systems typically use FPGAs and SoC as the main processing unit. FPGAs and SoCs solve many problems that legacy CPU-based systems can’t. In general, they are higher-performing, lower-power and more efficient at the system level Video broadcast and Pro AV systems must interface … [Read more...]
Gen-Z Consortium Demo at Flash Memory Summit Includes Samtec Flyover ®
The Flash Memory Summit (FMS) is up and running this week in Santa Clara, CA. The event gives attendees access to the latest technology updates, forecasts, and roadmaps from NVM industry leaders. FMS 2019 is a great venue for the Gen-Z Consortium to display its latest solutions. Gen-Z technology offers a secure open-systems fabric providing high-speed, low-latency access to all memory types in a system. At FMS, the Gen-Z Consortium will highlight a multi-vendor rack typical of modern … [Read more...]
DesignCon 2017 — Flyover QSFP28 For 56+ Gbps Applications
A product demonstration that drew a lot of attention at DesignCon 2017 showed how Samtec FQSFP Flyover™ interconnects are used in the Keysight Reference Solution RS506 Digital Interconnect Test System. The demo has the 32 port Keysight VNA coupled to PLTS measurement software. With this system, one measurement captures all 32 ports. In this video, Jim Nadolny, Samtec’s Principle SI and EMI Engineer, walks us through the demo. Jim explains how the high-speed signals are routed … [Read more...]
Solving Signal Integrity Problems At Very High Data Rates
Our friends at EDN recently published Solving Signal Integrity Problems At Very High Data Rates. The article - written by Lee Ritchey and Kella Knack from Speeding Edge and Teraspeed's own Scott McMorrow - discusses the challenges of achieving high data rates given parasitics in PCBs. It presents a novel, alternative design approach to the problem. To elaborate a bit ... Advances in semiconductor technology are making it possible to connect components in … [Read more...]
FireFly™ Finds a Home in PCIe Expansion Cards
PCI Express continues to grow as the de facto I/O expansion bus in a number of embedded computing applications. The flexibility of the PCIe interface and the data rates it supports have spawned a number of standard PCB form factors adopted in many different applications. A common functionality added to many PCIe form factor expansion cards is optical networking. While industry standard active optical cables target typical datacom and telecom applications, a variety of high-speed I/O … [Read more...]