Cables/Connecting
Amphenol unveil heavy duty MVCs for hazardous environments
Amphenol has today announced a new line of heavy duty medium voltage couplers for use in hazardous environments. Ideal for applications in the mining, utility, tunneling and shore power industries for safe and reliable transfer of electricity throughout a job site, Amphenol’s MVC series couplers vary in voltage from 600 V to 15 kV with amperages up to 600 A.
New brochure highlights HARTING’s Value Added Business
HARTING has announced a new brochure containing full details of its Value Added Business operation, which supplies cable and harness assemblies from a central location in England, with additional cable assembly facilities worldwide. The VAB operation brings together the installation and connectivity expertise of HARTING’s Technology Group to produce custom-designed cable, wire harness, and related solutions. This combination creates innovat...
TE unveil Industrial Mini I/O connectivity system
TE Connectivity have today introduced a new small, compact, latching, wire-to-board I/O interface that allows for safe high-speed connections at all angles. Enabling reliable connections, the Industrial Mini I/O connectivity system has been designed with two points of contact. Built for industrial and high vibration environments, the new connectivity system facilitates increased reliability compared to other I/O alternatives.
Harwin now offers a wider connector range from stock
Harwin has today announced that it has broadened its range of Datamate Mix-Tek mixed-technology connector series that are available as standard off-the-shelf products. Horizontal and coax versions of the popular 2mm pitch high-reliability family are now immediately available, providing a significant reduction in design time.
FCI unveil 0.8mm connectors supporting 8 GT/s PCIe signalling
FCI has today announced that the BERGSTAK 0.8mm mezzanine connectors have been successfully demonstrated to be capable of supporting PCI Express 3.0 signalling at 8 GT/s. With PCIe 3.0 signal performance demonstrated up to 10mm stack height, the compact, dual-row BERGSTAK 0.8mm pitch connector series is available in 40 to 200 positions in increments of 20 positions.
In2Connect unveil glass to metal hermetic IP68 M12 connector
In2Connect have today introduced a new range of glass to metal hermetically sealed IP68 M12 male socket connectors. Featuring fixed pin contacts fused into a glass dielectric insert, these new connectors are specifically designed to exceed the mechanical and environmental requirements of IEC-61076-2-101. The new hermetically sealed connectors are available as male receptacles with eyelet, solder bucket and/or PCB pin contacts.
Everyone’s an individual
How a new approach to the single-strand wiring of PCBs addresses existing challenges by offering a powerful, reliable, economical and easily installable interconnection solution. Kevin Canham, Production and Application Manager with Harting Technology Group, explores more in this article from ES Design magazine.
Altera demos Iinterlaken connectivity with Cavium OCTEON multicore processors
Altera have revealed the interoperability of its Interlaken intellectual property core on Stratix V FPGAs with Cavium’s OCTEON multicore processors, simplifying OEM’s device decision making process by ensuring chip-to-chip connectivity upfront. The Altera Interlaken IP core provides high throughput and performance when workloads are at their peak.
Industry’s first single-chip DockPort solution launched
Texas Instruments introduce the industry’s first single-chip DockPort interface solution, the HD3SS2521. This new DockPort solution provides audio/video, USB data and power over a single cable between a notebook, ultrabook or tablet PC and a docking station or dongle. TI’s DockPort solution offers more features than standard USB docking stations and is a lower cost alternative to proprietary implementations. Enabling DisplayPort, USB ...
A rugged connectivity solution from HARTING
HARTING's rugged connectivity solutions features a wide range of audio-visual multimedia installation applications, along with RFID systems for asset management in the theatre and touring environment. A major new product is Han-Eco Outdoor: a new addition to HARTING’s Han-Eco connector family specifically designed for outdoor applications. The Han-Eco Outdoor connector housing is based on robust high-performance plastic material, which gives th...