New-Tech Europe Magazine | Q4-2020 | Digital Edition

VersaLink is offered as a potted contact in Micro-D style connectors. Standard Micro components are combined with a modified shell to allow hybrid arrangements using VersaLink contact modules alongside standard Micro-D inserts. VersaLink Micro-D allows utilization of reliable 83513 Micro-D hardware and panel cutouts with advanced high-speed technology. VersaLink Bridge was developed to allow landing of a single differential pair onto a printed circuit board using the smallest footprint possible. This allows not only for less overall space taken up on the board, but it also allows the designer to land the signal right next to their FPGA or whatever high-speed device they might have. VersaLink Bridge eliminates lossy long copper trace routings by traversing them over impedance-controlled VersaLink Bridge cables, rather than across the circuit board. High-Speed Micro-D is optimized for high-speed differential signaling at upwards of 10 Gbps. Glenair engineers utilized ANSYS simulation software to determine how a standard Micro-D connector could best be optimized for high-speed. The resulting product uses the same shell, hardware, and contact spacing as a Micro-D, but utilizes smaller 1 Amp nano TwistPin contacts. This modification reduces the overall

Image: SpeedMaster SuperNine pair

the use of standard wire gauges, up to 24 AWG, and uses standard size 22D contacts. Its threaded shield termination is field-repairable. SpeedMaster is a turnkey connector / contact solution with its own high- density insert arrangements for SuperNine, Series 28 HiperD, and Series 804 push-pull Mighty Mouse. Visit our High-Speed Interconnect Solutions page at https://www. g l ena i r. c om/ c onne c t o r s - and - contacts-for-high-speed-datalink- protocols/index.htm for complete details on all of Glenair’s mission- critical high-speed solutions.

diameter of a mated pair of contacts to allow for 100 ohm impedance- matched differential pairs. High-Speed Micro-D board-mount connectors offer a combination of thru-hole and surface mount termination. Surface-mount termination is often specified for high-speed systems, VersaLink Micro-D testing has shown comparable performance in differential signaling using either plated thru-hole or surface-mount tails. We’ll move on now to SpeedMaster, which is another 8-way shielded octaxial contact system for 10GbE applications. SpeedMaster allows

Image: Versalink Micro pair 1

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