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News Release from: FCI | Subject: Metral 4000
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 27 November 2002
Back panel connector optimises signal
integrity
With an enhanced receptacle geometry, the Metral 4000 back-panel connector system ensures an insertion loss of less than 1.0dB at 5GHz and enables the design of 10Gbit/s interconnection links.
With an enhanced receptacle geometry, the Metral 4000 back-panel connector system from FCI ensures an insertion loss of less than 1.0dB at 5GHz and enables the design of 10Gbit/s interconnection links To allow efficient signal routing in horizontal and vertical planes, pin-to-pin spacing of the Metral 4000 receptacles and headers has been designed on a 2mm grid
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 18 Feb 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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Press-fit pins designed for 0.6mm drilled PCB holes mean the connector system offers additional width for trace routing and lower capacitance of the via holes.
Featuring a shielded stripline transmission structure and dedicated ground rows, receptacles and headers are available in 5 x 6 and 8 x 12 position versions, providing a contact density of 10 and 15 pairs per centimetre, respectively.
As Metral 4000 is intermateable with Metral 1000 and 2000 connector systems, users can choose the most economical product combinations that best match signal integrity needs.
A cross-section of 0.5 x 0.5mm makes Metral 4000 signal pins highly resistant to mechanical damage.
The all-pin interface of the back-panel connector system also means that connectors are single pin repairable.
The Metral 4000 high-speed five- and eight-row receptacles and headers are fully supported by test boards, signal integrity data and H-Spice models.
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