- High insertion life
- Suited for blind mate connections
- Low profile, high compliance ratio
- Ideal for high shock and vibration environments
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Battery Contacts and Dovetail Connectors
Featuring C Series Spring Probes, renowned for their incomparable shock and vibration performance, housed in a patented block design.
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Spring Probe Connector makes the Connection to Digital X-Ray Detector
Smiths Interconnect worked with the manufacturer’s design team to modify the design to provide additional alignment and retention of the magnet latch connectors for the medical detectors.
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Hybrid & Pneumatic Modules for Modular Connectors
Smiths Interconnect expands its L Series of modular connectors with new contact technologies.
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Understanding the Test Criteria of Optical Fiber Transceivers Used in Space
In space, high performance components must be able to deliver reliably in the punishing environment. It is optical transceivers that drive transmissions, converting signals to and from a copper-resident format. Fiber optics communications provide high bandwidth and low latency signaling. Signal transmissions through fiber optic cables (FOCs) provide immunity to EM/RFI interference, crosstalk, and voltage level surges. Fiber optics’ accuracy and reliability exceeds traditional cabling. Covering 1,000 feet requires four pounds of FOC versus 39 pounds of copper wiring, and fiber optics also consume less energy than copper. To convert electrical signals from circuitries with copper output to fiber optics, optical fiber transceivers are usually required.
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Taking the Fast Bridge between Neural Networks
Neural networks have been around since the 1950s. The advent of fast, massively parallel processors like the Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) have made neural network applications like object recognition feasible. Neural networks are one means used to create Artificial Intelligence (AI). The latest iPhones now have an AI chip, primarily to offload face recognition tasks.1 Voice translation tasks would also benefit from an AI chip. Google provides voice translation as long as there is access to a cloud. The ability to translate directly from a phone without requiring Internet access to Google engines would be advantageous, and it’s possible that the iPhone is headed in that direction.