Connectors
High-Speed Board-to-Board
Mezzanine Strips

Mezzanine Strips

Board-to-board systems to 28+ Gbps performance featuring integral ground planes, rugged Edge Rate® contacts, slim body and low profile stack heights.

AcceleRate® HDAcceleRate® HD Ultra-Dense Multi-Row Mezzanine Strips

These 0.635 mm pitch high-density multi-row mezzanine strips feature up to 240 high-speed Edge Rate® contacts in a slim, low-profile design.

Features
  • Incredibly dense with up to 240 total I/Os
  • Low profile 5 mm stack height
  • Slim 5 mm width
  • 4-row design; 10 - 60 positions per row (40 - 240 total positions)
  • Edge Rate® contact system optimized for signal integrity performance
  • Supports 56 Gbps PAM4 (28 Gbps NRZ) applications
  • Solder ball technology for simplified processing and self aligning
  • Additional stack heights and higher pin counts in development
Series
V
  • ADF6
  • ADM6
AcceleRate® HD

Q Strip®Q Strip® High-Speed Interconnects

Samtec Q Strip® connectors are designed for high-speed board-to-board applications where signal integrity is essential.

Features
  • Performance: Up to 14.0 GHz /28 Gbps
  • Integral ground/power plane
  • Connector to connector retention options
  • Vertical, perpendicular, and coplanar applications
  • Contacts: Up to 180 I/Os
  • Stack height: 5.00 mm - 25.00 mm
Series
V
  • QSE
  • QSE-EM
  • QSH
  • QSH-RA
  • QSS
  • QSS-RA
  • QTE
  • QTH
  • QTH-RA
  • QTS
  • QTS-RA
Q Strip®

Q Pairs®Q Pairs® Differential Pair Interconnects

Samtec Q Pairs® connectors are designed for high-speed board-to-board applications where signal integrity is essential.

Features
  • Performance: Up to 10.5 GHz / 21 Gbps
  • Optimized for 100 ohm systems
  • Integral ground/power plane
  • Stack height: 5.00-25.00 mm
  • Contacts: Up to 100 pairs
Series
V
  • QSE-DP
  • QSH-DP
  • QSH-DP-RA
  • QSS-DP
  • QTE-DP
  • QTH-DP
  • QTH-DP-RA
  • QTS-DP
Q Pairs®

Q Rate®Q Rate® Slim, Rugged High-Speed Interconnects

Samtec Q Rate® connectors have a slim footprint, integral power/ground plane, and Edge Rate® contacts for superior SI performance.

Features
  • Performance: Up to 15 GHz / 30 Gbps
  • Rugged Edge Rate® contacts
  • Integral ground/power plane
  • Up to 156 positions
  • Slim footprint (less than 5.00 mm wide)
Series
V
  • QRF8
  • QRF8-DP
  • QRF8-RA
  • QRM8
  • QRM8-DP
  • QRM8-RA
Help Me Choose?
Q Rate®

Q2™Q2™ Rugged, High-Speed Interconnects

These rugged, high-speed connectors feature a ground plane and high-wipe contacts.

Features
  • Performance: Up to 8.5 GHz / 17 Gbps
  • Increased insertion depth
  • Dual stage hot pluggable
  • Integral ground/power plane
  • Shielded option available
  • Power and RF ends options
  • Contacts: Up to 208 I/Os
  • Stack height: 10.00 mm - 16.00 mm
Series
V
  • QFS
  • QFS-DP
  • QFS-EM
  • QFS-PC
  • QFS-RA
  • QFSS
  • QFSS-DP
  • QFSS-DP-PC
  • QFSS-PC
  • QMS
  • QMS-DP
  • QMS-EM
  • QMS-PC
  • QMS-RA
  • QMSS
  • QMSS-DP
  • QMSS-DP-PC
  • QMSS-PC
Help Me Choose?
Q2™

Edge Rate®Edge Rate® Connector Strips

Rugged Edge Rate® contact systems optimized for signal integrity performance.

Features
  • Edge Rate® contacts optimized for signal integrity performance
  • 1.5 mm contact wipe
  • Robust when "zippered" during unmating
  • Up to 56 Gbps PAM4 performance
  • 0.50 mm, 0.635 mm or 0.80 mm pitch systems
  • Stack heights from 5 mm to 18 mm
  • Extremely slim 2.5 mm body width on 0.635 mm pitch system
  • 0.50 mm pitch system for up to 40% PCB space savings vs 0.80 mm pitch system
Series
V
  • ERF5
  • ERF5-RA
  • ERF6
  • ERF8
  • ERF8-EM
  • ERF8-RA
  • ERM5
  • ERM6
  • ERM8
  • ERM8-EM
  • ERM8-RA
Help Me Choose?
Edge Rate®

Razor Beam™Razor Beam™

High-speed, high-density Razor Beam™ self-mating systems reduce inventory costs and are available in a variety of pitches and lead styles for increased flexibility.

Features
  • 10 stack height options from 5 mm to 12 mm
  • Audible click when mated
  • Mating and unmating forces approximately 4-6x greater than typical micro pitch connectors
  • Up to 100 contacts
Series
V
  • JSO
  • LSEM
  • LSHM
  • LSS
Razor Beam™

SAMTEC Blog

Counterfeit parts and the issues posed by them are a growing concern throughout the electronic industry.  However, counterfeit products are nothing new when it comes to consumer goods, and for many years, in any large city, traveling merchants have sold everything from purses to ...
[Read More]
COBO, Silicon Photonics Kevin Burt, Application Engineer at the Samtec Optical Group, walks us through a demonstration using silicon photonics and the COBO (Consortium of Onboard Optics) form factor.  This was displayed at OFC 2018 in San Diego, California. Samtec is a fabless in...
[Read More]
Standardization. COTS. Interoperability. Configurable. These often-used terms describe on-going efforts to define flexible and open critical embedded computing architectures. One such example is VITA-backed VPX. The goal of VPX is to leverage the latest switch fabric technologies...
[Read More]
Our full part number Technical Specifications pages have long allowed you to download a “Specs Kit” for a full part number, giving you easy future access to all of the technical documents related to your product. We’ve now rolled out this same update to our series level Tech Spec...
[Read More]
In March 2018, we turned our attention back to our on-site search tool, to complete Phase 3 of our user experience upgrades. We also rolled out a very cool experience for our high speed cable customers, to tell the story of the high speed cable offering at Samtec. Here are the ma...
[Read More]
© 2018 Samtec. All rights reserved.

SPEAK WITH A REPRESENTATIVE

1-800-726-8329

1-800-SAMTEC-9

1-812-944-6733

WEBSITE OR PRODUCT SUPPORT

eCustomerService@samtec.com

Live Chat

ABOUT US

CONTACT US

Samtec Logo

© 2018 Samtec. All rights reserved.

View Full Site