Samtec experts will be attending embedded world North America 2024 in Austin October 8-10, 2024, showcasing its solutions for a new era in connectivity. Stop by Samtec’s booth (#2632) to connect with professionals who are driving standards development and advancing cutting-edge solutions for superior signal and power integrity implementation. According to Samtec, it offers the industry’s largest selection of board-to-board connectors such as high-speed mezzanine, ultra micro, edge card, backplane systems, and high-density array systems.

Embedded Computing Design’s Road to Embedded World will highlight a host of embedded suppliers who will be showcasing their latest products and technologies at Embedded World, April 9^th to 11^th in Nuremberg, Germany. Embedded World is the largest global gathering of its kind. Check back regularly to see where the Road to Embedded World takes us.

Are SOMs and COMs the same thing? Some people would say yes, but in reality, they are not. So, what’s the difference. To get a better understanding of the matter, I spoke to Matthew Burns, a Global Director at Samtec on this week’s Embedded Executives podcast. The second part of this discussion is which is appropriate for your application. Tune in to find out.

Samtec, Inc. released its HSEC6-DV Series of PCIe 6.0 capable Generate high-speed edge card socket solution for 64 Gbps PAM4 (32 Gbps NRZ) applications. The HSEC6-DV utilizes typical PCIe 6.0 AI hardware designs connecting motherboard to supplemental cards. For signal reliability and lifecycle extension, the HSEC6-DV is delivered with Edge Rate contacts in a variant pair configuration on a 0.60 mm pitch.

This next stop is in my home state and it is always great to be back, unless it is winter. We are visiting Samtec and getting some insider information on Samtec’s high-performance interconnects for embedded computing applications. It’s highlight at embedded world 2023 will be PICMG COM-HPC, other Standards-based interconnect solutions, and its latest RF solutions.

A quick jaunt down I-65 from Indianapolis will get us to our next stop on the Road to embedded world, New Albany, IN, and the home of Samtec USA.

COM-HPC was officially ratified about six months ago. Embedded Computing Design has done a nice job covering the spec and many of the products that have come out of the spec (some before ratification and many after). We also posted a series of videos (called COM-HPC Academy) with some of the influential members of PICMG, the standards body behind the spec.