By Gina Roos, editor-in-chief
Amphenol Ardent Concepts offers a new form factor for its TR Multicoax connector that is designed to solve signal integrity issues caused by serpentine trace routing in high-speed devices. The TR Multicoax series connectors are offered in a variety of channel counts and form factors and support speeds of 70 GHz+ with a roadmap to 110 GHz.
The company said that the TR Equal Trace series delivers superior signal integrity from multiple high-speed channels in an arched footprint, making it well-suited for applications in which equal and short trace lengths are needed for performance tuning.
In these cases, the TR Equal Trace series can eliminate the need to create serpentine traces, which helps ensure that the signals reach their destination at the same time in data and clock routing for peak performance, said the company. In addition, the tight pitch gets the connector closer to the device to reduce signal loss.
“The arched form factor allows designers to get extremely short and equal length traces for optimal signal integrity,” said Amphenol Ardent Concepts. “Users can avoid the traditional layout of multiple surface-mount connectors and simplify trace matching on a host or module compliance board with just a TR Equal Trace and a footprint symbol on the PCB.”
The patent pending form factor of TR Equal Trace was designed to be used with the Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF) Type-1 Integrated Coherent Transmitter-Receiver Optical Subassembly (IC-TROSA). “The Type-1 IC-TROSA project aims to help to reduce optical module size and to drive an industry consensus across leading optical component developers,” said Amphenol Ardent Concepts.
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