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...]
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...]
An Optical Illusion? Maximum Signal Density and Design Flexibility
Samtec FireFly™ mid-board optical cable systems boast the industry’s leading miniature footprint, enabling maximum signal density, and of course signal integrity over longer distances. That's a good thing because designers are facing longer-reach applications, increasing bandwidths, and tighter spaces. FireFly™ mid-board optical cable assemblies provide high-performance versatility for data rates up to 28 Gbps per channel. The miniature footprint allows for higher density and closer proximity … [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...]
New Linear Direct Drive At 112 Gbps PAM4
Straight from DesignCon 2023, Kevin Burt, Samtec's Director of Happiness, walks us through a proof-of-concept for an on-package, or near-package, linear direct drive electrical channel that gives us a 100-meter link at 112 Gbps. These links could be used in mid-board optical and copper designs using Samtec Flyover® cable assemblies or high-speed mezzanine connector sets, as well as for full-channel front-panel and back-panel cable applications. A Multilane Pattern Generator generates a 112 … [Read more...]
PCI Express Solutions & Effective Communication
Communication. There are hundreds of books about the various types, styles and strategies. You can earn degrees in the study of it. It’s a life skill everyone must learn, and there is a constant pursuit for ways to more effectively communicate. The PCI Express® standard can help with effective communication, but just for electronic devices instead of people - you'll still need to buy that book. This standard creates a connection for high bandwidth communication between a PCI Express® device … [Read more...]
Samtec and Techway Discuss 25 Gbps Embedded Optical Solutions
Embedded computing solutions are increasing in functionality, density and performance. Fast growing applications range from 5G and ATE to Machine Vision and Edge Computing. High-speed optical communications offer faster throughput and scalability, yet many system architects and hardware engineers are hesitant to move to the optical domain. Embedded Optical Solutions Several solutions on the market help simplify designing in the optical domain. For example, the Samtec … [Read more...]
Samtec Releases New FireFly™ Video
We talk about FireFly™ a lot around here, and why not? With the industry’s leading miniature footprint enabling maximum signal density and SI over longer distances, we assume you want to hear about it. FireFly™ Micro Flyover System™ provides high-performance versatility by taking the data connection “off board” for higher data rates up to 28 Gbps per lane with a path to 112 Gbps PAM4. In addition, the miniature footprint allows for higher density and closer proximity to the IC. The results … [Read more...]
2018 IEEE Avionics and Vehicle Fiber-Optics and Photonics Conference (AVFOP)
The aerospace & vetronics industries have made great strides in recent years deploying fiber optics and photonics technology on commercial and military platforms. This trend will continue to grow as avionics & vetronics fiber optic system architectures, networking schemes, and components evolve and mature. This application-oriented conference will provide an international forum for leaders, researchers, engineers, and manufacturers to convene and discuss issues of deploying … [Read more...]