Shunts and Jumpers

Samtec Broadens SI Evaluation Kit Portfolio

“The customer is always right!” Anyone in customer service knows that motto. Pioneering businessmen César Ritz, Marshall Field, Harry Gordon Selfridge and others championed similar mantras throughout their careers. Today, Samtec lives and breathes Sudden Service®. In essence, Sam...

High-Performance Digital Connectors For Analog

Samtec continues to grow its line of signal integrity connectors and cable systems, many rated at 28, 56 and 112 Gbps. These high-performance interconnects, typically used in digital applications, are finding new homes in the analog world. Small Form Factor A primary benefit of c...

Samtec Rides the Virtual Event Wave

Virtual. In a word, that sums up many of our everyday experiences. Gradually, virtual events were popping up. In the tech industry, virtual conferences and trade shows are the “New Normal.” One advantage of virtual, or digital, events seems to be popping up. Many in-person tech c...

Using Ionization can Help Control ESD

In a previous blog, I wrote about Electrostatic Discharge (ESD), and why it needs to be controlled in an electronic system. Since connectors are passive devices, there really isn’t much that can be affected by ESD on the connector system; however, this does not mean that Samtec d...

Precision RF Products: New and Coming Soon

The NBA Finals, the first week of Wimbledon, the fourth benches-clearing-brawl-of-the-season between the Pirates and the Reds, and precision RF at IMS are all things I will miss in June. Hopefully live sporting events will return later in the year. IMS has been rescheduled as a v...