Samtec Quality Connectors
Founded in 1976, Samtec is a privately held, $613-million global manufacturer of a broad line of electronic interconnect solution blocks, including IC-to-board/ultra-micro, high-speed board-to-board, high-speed cables, future-proof/active optics, flexible stacking, and micro/rugged components and cables. It has special working groups in optics, packaging, cable design, and signal integrity. Samtec is a connector company that puts people first with a commitment to exceptional service, quality products, and convenient tools.
Connectors
Samtec offers the largest variety of board-to-board interconnects in the industry. Popular applications include high-speed mezzanine and high-density array systems, high-speed edge card and backplane systems, and micro pitch board stacking systems down to 0.40 mm pitch and 1.00 mm stack height. Micro rugged products feature Samtec’s Tiger Eye™ contact system on a variety of pitches, as well as high-power strips and signal/power combo connectors to 60A/blade. Standard board-to-board header and socket systems are available in a variety of pitches, densities, stack heights, and applications.
Cable Systems
Samtec cable assembly products include high-speed assemblies with micro coax or twinax cables. Sealed panel and I/O systems are IP67 and IP68 protected. Also available is a full line of discrete wire, IDC, and FFC cable assemblies, including a broad selection of housings and contacts, as well as hand-tools and semi-automatic applicators.
Reasons to Choose Samtec and Samtec Collaboration
Power applications: Samtec offers Power Mate®, PowerStrip™/30 and PowerStrip/40 interconnect systems. These connector families provide a range of solutions from 300 VAC – 600 VAC, 24 AWG – 10 AWG, and per-pin current 5.2 – 34.5 amps. Samtec has the interconnect wiring expertise to help you develop the appropriate cable assembly to interface, not only to your Samtec power management system, but other industry-standard connectors that may be a part of your system. Samtec is ready to help you develop and produce a complete turnkey integrated cable assembly or electronic harness solution.- Panel Systems: Samtec’s AccliMate™ flexible, sealed circular and rectangular connector offering provides dust and water protection, meeting IP67 and IP68 standards. The connector families offer lightweight, positive latch, dust caps, field termination kits, cable-to-cable and board-to-cable solutions. Samtec can help you select the appropriate connectors to meet the application, and follow that up with design for manufacturability (DFM) recommendations to meet a range of environmental conditions.
- Micro/Rugged Systems: Samtec’s Tiger Eye multi-finger, BeCu contact system is ideal for high reliability and high-cycle applications. It is available in 0,80 mm, 1,27 mm, 2,00 mm pitch connector systems. A Samtec-Samtec solution can provide the interface from the circuit board to I/O panel, and beyond. In addition to Samtec, Samtec is tooled and has experience working with a wide range of manufacturers: TE, Molex, Hirose, Lemo, etc. When you need to utilize multiple manufacturers’ connectors in the design, Samtec manufacturing engineers can help configure the assembly to integrate the Samtec connectors and cable with other non-Samtec products to supply a custom, fully-tested cable assembly or wire harness.
- Nothing but the best equipment and personnel: the construction of a cable assembly, whether processing a Samtec discrete Mini Mate®, power PESS, panel AccliMate, or industry-standard wire harnessing requires special knowledge and the best wire processing equipment in the business. Samtec has made a commitment to having the best Schleuniger wire processing equipment available to address and meet any cable construction or workmanship requirement. Besides having all the best equipment, Samtec has highly-trained personnel that know how to set up and program this equipment to achieve the most consistent results when the application is absolutely critical.
- Customization: when the off the shelf Samtec cable solution is great, but you need it with a twist. Samtec can take the standard configuration and add shielding, intermix Samtec with non-Samtec connectors, and combine Samtec cable assemblies with other discrete wiring and industry cables to form the custom solution that your application requires.