High-Speed Twinax Cable Solutions To 224 and 112 Gbps PAM4 At DesignCon 2024, Samtec had several live product demonstrations showing a wide variety of Samtec Flyover® cable solutions, all with excellent performance at 224 and 112 Gbps PAM4 data rates. One thing they have in common is Samtec’s Eye Speed®, ultra-low skew twinax cable. Eye Speed is Samtec’s proprietary, co-extruded twinax cable that optimizes signal integrity, bandwidth, and reach. Because of our unique manufacturing process, … [Read more...]
New High-Speed Board-to-Board & Backplane Guide: A Pile of Choices
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...]
New 224 Gbps PAM4 Interconnect Solutions With Impressive Performance
Samtec next-generation connector solutions are designed to meet the challenges of 224 Gbps PAM4 architectures. At DesignCon 2024, Samtec had five product demonstrations and displays showcasing our 224 Gbps products. Many incorporated Si-Fly HD™, our new chip adjacent (or on-package) Samtec Flyover® Cable system. In the video above, Jonathan Sprigler, High-Speed Product Manager at Samtec, walks you through some of the 224 Gbps demos and displays in the Samtec booth. First, Jonathan … [Read more...]
New Front Panel, 112 Gbps PAM4 Cable Solution
Samtec has 10 connector systems – both cable-to-board and board-to-board -- that achieve outstanding performance at 112 Gbps PAM4 data rates. The 112 G cable systems are Samtec Flyover® solutions that are designed for mid-board, mid-board to front-panel, mid-board to back-panel, and panel-to-panel configurations. (Here's a link if you want to learn more about the benefits of Samtec Flyover) In this video, Matt Burns, Director of Technical Marketing, walks us through a live demonstration of a … [Read more...]
Samtec Experts on Stage at DesignCon 2024
DesignCon 2024 promises to be another great gathering of the high-speed technical community, where issues of signal integrity, power integrity, EMC/EMI converge. 224 Gbps systems, signals, simulation, and testing are expected to be hot topics in ’24. Samtec will be front and center at DesignCon, as hosts of the Tuesday night Welcome Reception as well as showing our latest products and demos in booth 939 on the show floor (more to come on that in a later blog). There will be a lot going on, … [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 Connector Products and Technologies On Display At SC23
Samtec will present several cutting-edge connector product demonstrations at SC23, all designed for high-performance computing, networking, storage, and analysis. New connectors include a new 224 Gbps PAM4 mid-board cable system, as well as a proof-of-concept solution for PCIe® 7.0. There are also connector solutions for CXL 3.0, PCIe 6.0, and 112 Gbps PAM4, as well as state-of-the-art fiber optic connector systems. If you're there, stop by booth 319. Samtec products that will be live in … [Read more...]
Benefits of Edge Card Connectors: Let Me Count The Ways
Benefits of Edge Card Sockets Whereas most Samtec board-to-board connectors are two-piece systems, edge card connectors provide an interface between two boards with just one connector. There are several reasons why a designer may choose an edge card socket over a two-piece system. First, edge card connectors are great for modular designs; designers can easily upgrade or configure their system by swapping out the board. Also, they make it easy to plug and unplug a mating card that … [Read more...]
Living On The Edge Rate
Edge Rate® is one of Samtec's most popular high-speed, high-bandwidth interconnect systems. Edge Rate is both the name of the pin and in this case, it’s also a product family. Edge Rate Contact Design Let’s begin with the contact system because that’s the star of the show. With some connectors, the mating edge of the contact is the cut edge of the pin. If you look at the edge under a microscope you may see micro burrs and edges. This reduces the life of the connector because … [Read more...]
A New Angle On Power/Signal High-Density Arrays
Angles surround us every day – physical angles like the corner over there, and angles of perspective. Samtec’s new AcceleRate® mP high-density power/signal interconnect system was born out of a different perspective on power integrity and a 90 degree rotation. Best in class density for a power/signal interconnect system, AcceleRate® mP achieves up to 240 I/Os in .438 sq. inches. It also packs a punch with up to 22 Amps per power blade and 56 Gbps signal performance. Rotated Power … [Read more...]