Earlier this year, Samtec released its Bulls Eye high-performance test assemblies for frequencies as high as 90 GHz. The assemblies, which help shrink evaluation boards and trace lengths, serve test applications for SerDes characterization, clock/data recovery, mmWave radar, automated test equipment, and FR2 5G networks.
To aid engineers in evaluating the Bulls Eye assemblies, Samtec offers a 70-GHz Bulls Eye signal-integrity (SI) evaluation kit. It gives system designers, RF engineers, and SI engineers a means of testing the double-row Bulls Eye system to ensure its performance in their specific applications.
The 70-GHz Bulls Eye SI Evaluation Kit (REF-213864-01) is a single-PCB system with a compact form factor. Each PCB includes one BE70B (BE70B-J-S-2-04) compression interface that provides easy mating and eliminates soldering. Each kit comes with four BE70C (BE70C-S-185P-2-02-0305) Bulls Eye cable assemblies.
The board routes high-frequency referential signals (a total of eight) from the BE70A to precision RF compression-mount connectors. The kit delivers optimized SI performance thanks to the company’s Final Inch BOR PCB trace routing.
With the evaluation kit, users can perform time-domain measurements through direct connections to time-domain reflectometers or time-domain transmissions, or frequency-domain measurements through direction connection to vector network analyzers. It can be used with IC characterization kits, 112-Gb/s PAM4 transceiver development kits, and FPGA evaluation and development kits.
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