Traditionally perceived as a chip-to-chip, single-host interconnect technology, PCIe (PCI Express) over fiber is making inroads into switch fabrics, challenging and potentially replacing previous interconnect technologies in embedded systems. In a new white paper, authors from Samtec and Dolphin ICS explain the use of PCIe for backplane expansion using fiber optics, including its applications and limitations for high-performance embedded systems, SoCs, and microcontrollers. The paper … [Read more...]
Famous Women in Electronics
Researching famous women in electronics led me in many directions and specialties, like mechanical engineering and computer science, and would easily turn this rather ambitious blog post into a book! For this piece, I focus on three women who excelled in the field of electrical engineering. In a later post, I will give a nod to some of the other incredible women in related fields that I discovered along the way. I by no means promise an exhaustive list, so please, add comments with women whom … [Read more...]
Connectors for HPC and Supercomputing
Our modern industrial world depends on raw materials. Whether oil, steel or cotton, raw materials have been of huge importance to the development of the industriaized world. While these physical products remain as vital as ever, the modern era has brought us a new raw material in the form of data. As consumers, we are familiar with data as we use our smartphones and computers. However, the volume of data that is created by modern systems is on a scale that many of us might struggle to … [Read more...]
Cutting Edge Copper and Optical Interconnects at OFC 2024
OFC, the Optical Fiber Communications Conference, is all about optical networking and communications. Samtec was front and center showcasing 224 Gbps PAM4 solutions, next-generation transceivers for optical and copper, CXL-over-optics, and PCIe 6.0 solutions, just to name a few. If you weren't at the show, here's a quick tour of the product and technology demonstrations at our booth. Future Proof Optical Interconnects Samtec’s new Halo™ system is a future-proof, next-generation … [Read more...]
New Rugged, High-Speed Twinax Cable Solutions
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 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...]
Explore Our New Computer & Semiconductor Industries Landing Page
Samtec is excited to introduce our latest Industries Applications page—the Computer & Semiconductor Industries Landing Page. This dedicated page serves as a comprehensive resource center, spotlighting key applications that are helping shape this landscape. Let's dive into the exciting features of our new landing page! Navigating Break-Out Sections: Learn from Industry Experts: At Samtec, we believe in knowledge sharing. Our new landing page provides a platform for customers to … [Read more...]
New CXL Over Fiber Solution
A live product demonstration of CXL over fiber garnered a lot of attention at SC23. Other popular demos included a 224 Gbps PAM4 solution, and a proof-of-concept 128 GT/s (PCIe® 7.0) high-speed cable system. CXL is based on the PCI Express specification physical and electrical interface. CXL enables cache coherency between the CPU and attached devices, such as accelerators, GPUs, or memory devices. Emerging storage and memory use cases demand high performance, low … [Read more...]
New Proof-of-Concept High-Speed Cable Solution Performs At 128 GT/s
The upcoming PCIe® 7.0 specification is intended to enable 128 GT/s data rates. It continues PCIe’s trend of double speeds every generation. According to PCI-SIG, "PCIe 7.0 technology is targeted to be a scalable interconnect solution for data-intensive markets like Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning, Data Center, HPC, Automotive, IoT, and Military/Aerospace."(1) PCIe 7.0 is targeted for release in 2025, and it probably won’t be in devices until 2027. But, at SC 23 in Denver, Samtec … [Read more...]
New 224 G Interconnect Family In A Live Product Demonstration
Emerging system requirements are driven by industry advancements in areas such as data centers, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and quantum computing, among others. Samtec 224 Gbps PAM4 interconnect systems are carefully designed to satisfy these high-performance requirements, as you’ll see in the video. Ralph Page, Systems Architect at Samtec, gives an overview of what is possibly the world’s first public demonstration of an asynchronous 224 G system. This 224 G demo is from … [Read more...]