All facets of life seem to include videos of some kind. Social media feeds feature videos from family and friends or possibly that "killer product or service" everybody has to have. "How-to" and "DIY" videos can be found on any random topic. The list goes on. Never-ending video consumption by consumers on mobile devices, laptops, TVs or in the movie theatre drives the improved performance of IP networks and video production and distribution equipment. … [Read more...]
Samtec Releases Z-Ray® Application Design Guide
Interposers have a long history in microelectronics packaging. Legacy interposers help connect small pitch ICs or silicon die to wider pitch sockets or packages. While this approach started with the earliest PC MCUs, many common ICs, including FPGAs, NAND, DDR and others, use BGA packages as an interposer. As IC pin and solder-ball pitches have decreased, interposer adoption in various applications continues to increase. Highly complex consumer devices require high density, low … [Read more...]
Samtec Z-Ray® Solutions Enable Access to HMC
Traditional DRAM technologies - DDR2, DDR3, DDR4 – have long been the workhorse memory of choice for embedded and personal computing. Even in higher performance enterprise and supercomputing applications, DDR4 still finds a place in the world. However that time may be short lived. With network speeds topping 100Gbps, a next generation memory architecture is required to meet efficiency and performance gains need in data packet processing, data packet buffering and storage … [Read more...]
Z-Ray® Ultra Low Profile, High Density Interposers Provide Design Flexibility
Samtec’s Z-Ray® one piece arrays are ultra-low profile, high density and highly customizable compression contact arrays used as interposers or as board level interconnects. Compared to standard interposers, they feature greater density, X-Y-Z axes flexibility, customizable shapes and patterns, increased cycle life, low normal force with high deflection range and 28+ Gbps performance. These 0.80 mm pitch arrays (ZA8 Series) are available with a choice of dual compression contacts or single … [Read more...]