High speed backplane design is usually an iterative process. Tradeoffs must be made among multiple conflicting goals and constraints including: * Backplane architecture – desired vs. achievable ...

Part of the AirMax VS backplane connector family, four-pair vertical headers and right-angle receptacles improve pc-board routing density and contact spacing to optimize board real-estate consumption.

TE Connectivity and Credo are teaming up at DesignCon 2018 to demonstrate a system that can transmit data at rates of up to 112Gbit/s over PCB backplanes. In the demonstration, TE’s OSFP IO connector ...

As the demand for more bandwidth continues to grow, rather than investing in a forklift upgrade, IT managers are demanding more performance and longer product life from their existing equipment. This ...

With more connections being packed into backplanes, signal integrity becomes a concern. However, misconceptions have arisen around solving this problem. Elma Electronic's Ovidiu Mesesan sets the ...

Xilinx and Ansoft have created a Xilinx Virtex-II Pro X FPGA-based gigabit interconnect design kit for high-speed PCB and backplane designs. The kit is designed to predict the quality of a signal and ...

Current state-of-the-art backplanes used on comm equipment designs bundle 1- to 3-Gbit/s lanes to create a 10-Gbit/s connection to support Gigabit Ethernet or Sonet OC-192 traffic. While a good option ...

High performance computing systems by necessity pack as many boards in an enclosure as possible. But the fact they are high performance means they generate a lot of heat. Cooling them becomes an ...