FCI's ExaMAX connector technology reaches 40 Gb/s

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FCI , a leading manufacturer of connectors and interconnect systems, has developed advanced AirMax VS high-speed backplane connector technology that will provide the foundation for future 40 Gb/s transmission designs. This revolutionary ExaMAX connector design incorporates new connector termination design technology (which greatly reduces terminal antenna effects and ground resonance) and compact form factor and optimized PCB packaging technology to make the user's system design even more Simple and flexible.

The new contact structure at the ExaMAX plug-in interface ensures that there are two reliable contact points and minimizes the over-mating portion of the contact terminal head, eliminating unnecessary insertion loss resonance. Precise terminal injection molding integrates the differential pair balance over the complete channel and on a complementary ground plane. This optimized structure prevents additional ground resonance, shows well-controlled impedance and complete symmetry, and presents the entire connector Minimum crosstalk.

"The challenge of designing this unique plug interface is that in addition to eliminating the antenna resonance of the terminal head, it is also necessary to ensure that there are two reliable contact points, and that there are enough contact plugs under extreme mating conditions. Pull-ups and positive forces. A large amount of signal integrity and mechanical analysis is perfected to verify product performance, durability and reliability, and to confirm channel performance of 40 Gb/s," said Danny Morlion, CTO of FCI .

In addition to this innovative plug-in interface, ExaMAX TM connector technology offers compact design features similar to AirMax® connector housings: low-cost planar crimp blocks, low PCB footprint and optimized airflow Sex. The optimized PCB package has a large column space for high bandwidth packages, allowing pin ground vias to create a large signal bandwidth and suppress package crosstalk between adjacent column pairs.

We have put a lot of effort into designing ExaMAXTM connectors to achieve the best balance between performance, density and user-friendliness while maintaining the lowest application cost. "MORLION added.

ExaMAX technology adapts to a wide range of system interconnect applications and will be widely designed for a variety of backplane connectors, midplane connectors, mezzanine connectors, orthogonal connectors, coplanar connectors, and cable I/O interconnect products. Provides a platform to address future serial data rates up to 40 Gb/s. ExaMAX connectors are compatible with hard metric design practices and are easy to use with all AirMax® high-speed backplane signals, steering kits and power modules, giving system designers incredible flexibility and capacity to achieve cost in equipment design The best balance of performance.

FCI will demonstrate the signal integrity performance of ExaMAXTM high-density backplane connectors at the Design Congress 2013, held in Santa Clara, Calif., January 29-30, 2013. At booth 516, you will see field-operated backplane and cable I/O connector demonstrations with an active signal transfer rate of 25 Gb/s to meet all performance requirements in the OIF 25G-LR specification.