Boards/Backplanes

How a new approach to the single-strand wiring of PCBs addresses existing challenges by offering a powerful, reliable, economical and easily installable interconnection solution. Kevin Canham, Production and Application Manager with Harting Technology Group, explores more in this article from ES Design magazine.

Invotec have today announced that Inmarsat’s latest satellite, Alphasat, features an advanced Digital Integrated Processor system built by Astrium in the UK and incorporates PCBs manufactured by Invotec. Alphasat, the most sophisticated commercial communications satellite ever launched, took off from French Guiana on 25th July 2013.

Molex has announced a new line of seamless-barrel metric ring terminals, which enable universal use with metric-size studs and screws up to 10mm in diameter and wire sizes up to 6mm². They are ideal for terminating to metric screws or threaded posts and can be used in solderless wiring applications in the industrial, automotive and consumer industries.

Trenton Systems has released the first backplane that takes advantage of the superior performance inherent in PCI Express 3.0 technology. The BPX8093 backplane supports the increased PCI Express 3.0 link speed and bandwidth capability with a robust product design that enhances overall system throughput as well as data communication reliability.

ASSET InterTech have today announced the introduction of a new eBook that will help circuit board manufacturers who want to recover their investment in assembled boards that won’t boot – so called dead boards – and still maintain the tight production deadlines that constantly reduce the time they can spend on board debug.

MPD has invented another new CR2032 low profile coin cell battery holder. While other CR2032 holder solutions often rise 8 to 10 mm above the PCB, our new LP2032SM-JJ-GTR rises under 5 mm with an installed CR2032 battery. This directly saves more than 3 mm in height when compared to typical CR2032 battery holders available on the market.

Pixus Technologies announced new 3U OpenVPX backplanes in 5-slot and 6-slot sizes. The 5-slot OpenVPX backplane from Pixus features a mesh topology. The versatile backplane topology and slot size makes it an attractive choice for many development systems.

Kingston Technology Europe continues to celebrate its 10th HyperX anniversary by announcing all-new black printed circuit boards on two of its product lines. Kingston’s high-performance HyperX Beast and entry-level enthusiast ‘black’ lines will incorporate black PCB under the signature heatspreader designs.

Pixus Technologies now offers 40G AdvancedTCA backplanes in the 6-slot and 14-slot sizes. The 40G ATCA backplanes from Pixus Technologies are designed to PICMG 3.0 Rev 3.0 specifications. The 6 slot version features dual pluggable shelf manager/switch connections.

The PX1500-4 is a four channel waveform capture board that can acquire up to 1500 MSPS on each channel or up to 3000 MSPS for dual channel operation when ADC data is interleaved. The PX1500-4 can be set up to use either a transformer coupled front end or an amplifier connection.