Smiths Interconnect company News and Trends items

The new Ka-Band solution operates across military and civil frequencies and is suitable for manned and unmanned platforms. The recognized and proven iDirect Evolution® Defense platform features military-grade security and advanced mobility capabilities for tactical operations. The iDirect 9800 AE+ airborne modem combined with the Smiths Interconnect KaStream® 5000 MK II,...

The great impetus given by the COP26 summit has raised the world's awareness of climate change and made it a global priority. It is today well-known that to halt the consequences of climate change we need to limit global warming to 1.5°C (34.7°F) above pre-industrial levels. As a result, all aspects of our lives are under scrutiny.

The next generation of Smiths Interconnect floating mount, PCB signal and Ethernet connectors for complex electronics system are the ideal solution to the market increasing needs for small size, high-speed, and reliability in a unique product.

The most mission-critical of aerospace systems are the ones that journey into space, where they encounter the toughest environments. When they leave the Earth’s surface they must contend with huge radiation levels, vibration, shock and temperature extremes, making durability and reliability critical features of our connectivity components.

Smiths Interconnect has launched its broad range of microstrip isolators, circulators and coaxial components in X-band. Building on fifty years of experience, Smiths Interconnect’s X-Band microstrip and coaxial components are compact, high performance and space qualified. Several products of this offering are also used in terrestrial defence applications.

One of the most often asked questions from our customers about our cable assemblies is “how much power can this cable assembly handle”. This question cannot be understood in its completeness without the understanding of power, and the many variables that contribute to the makeup of power transmission. This white paper will serve to shed some light on this issue, and at t...

The continued need to evolve and develop smarter solutions has driven exciting new innovations that are reducing the cost-per-therapy in the medical sector without compromising life-critical performance.

Microstrip filters are considered planar because they are constructed using flat two-dimensional microstrip resonators on a dielectric substrate. Generally speaking, they offer similar performance to their larger counterparts built with discrete components that must be tuned by hand to achieve the desired results. They also have the advantage of being much smaller, well ...

The new HR-CTX high frequency termination Series offers excellent broadband performance up to 64GHz and unrivalled power rating capability up to 5 Watts in a compact 0404 package. Its four times smaller footprint allows customers to save space and weight on the board, while the total thin film design optimized on Aluminum Nitride offers a high power dissipation.

Microstrip isolators and circulators are comprised of up to 9 individual material layers, each material selected for its electro-magnetic and thermo-mechanical properties. These layers are assembled by bonding the layers to form a sandwich construction using a variety of specialist epoxies and processes which are processed using precisely applied mechanical pressure duri...

The product’s unique beveled tip provides reliable, stable contact resistance for applications where chip test is critical, such as IoT, Mobile, Internet, and Automotive. Designed into Standard Array test sockets or Volta WLCSP probe heads, Smiths Interconnect’s Kelvin probes provide a robust, low maintenance, long life test solution.

As medical service providers stretch their budgets to support an expanding and ageing patient list, they need device and component manufacturers to provide more value-oriented solutions that reduce the cost-of-ownership - from manufacturing and assembly to therapy and ongoing maintenance. Until now reduced cost has been synonymous with reduced standards. But, as a premiu...

Grafikontrol recently turned to Smiths Interconnect for an interconnect solution; this was for a new register control system for automatic graphic control in machines for commercial and newspaper printing.

Smiths Interconnect Canada Inc. (former Reflex Photonics Inc.), is proud to be the supplier of the SpaceABLE® radiation-resistant optical transceivers that are the backbone of the SES-17 payload data path. The SpaceABLE® Series allows the interconnection and routing of an overall throughput of more than 15 Terabit/s and permit the use of the full Ka beam antennas bandwid...

The Intercompact Series is an innovative solution for PCB to PCB and floating mouting rack and panelIntercompact Connectors Application applications currently offered in both signal and Ethernet versions. Designed to meet the requirements of the rail and industrial environments, it is also suitable for other demanding markets such as defence, space and test & measurement.

Learn from our industry experts Engineering Director, Doug LaFreniere and Product Director, David Popelka as they share Antenna challenges focused on operational requirements, enabling technologies and product solutions.

Nov. 10th - Learn from our experts how Spring Probe Interposers can be designed with varying stack heights within the same connector and to exact customer footprints incorporating component cut-outs, latching features and gaskets for ingress or shielding.

Smiths Interconnect proudly announces that its cPCI launched on NASA Mars Perseverance Rover has been awarded in the “Interconnect product of the year” category at the Electronics Industry Awards ceremony held in London on October 21st.

Today, space satellites are moving away from RF Analog-based payloads providing low speed telecommunication signaling, to a new Digital Transparent Processor architecture for high throughput satellites. This architecture increases the demand for rugged and higher speed connectivity. NXS forms the interconnect backplane that enables a scalable satellite design using as ma...

Smiths Interconnect’s K-band passive components are rigorously qualified for spacecraft use in the company’s state-of-the-art test and qualification laboratory in Dundee, Scotland. Qualification comprises sine and random vibration, mechanical shock, and where appropriate RF power TVAC, average power and multipaction, and critical power testing. Summary and qualification ...

Specifically designed for the compact size and the advanced technical features of the rail Eurobalise system. The BOA connector ensures reliable signal integrity and perfect transmission of data between the rail track and the train borne equipment, which is key for the performance of the Eurobalise system.

Comprehensive automotive test equipment allows cars to be smarter, greener and safer. ​To achieve both the necessary certifications and customer confidence for sales success, new cars must endure an even more stressful, rigorous, and aggressive testing and validation regime. Whether it is testing of drive trains, power trains, bearing or lights, the more stringent the de...

Nowadays environmental sustainability is a trending topic that affects all aspects of our life with no geographical distinction as it is about responsibly interacting with the planet to maintain natural resources and avoid jeopardizing the ability for future generations to meet their needs. The continuous development and improvement of new green energy supplies is eviden...

The new TSX Series is designed to offer excellent broadband performance up to 50GHz, while delivering increased power handling in a small 0604 surface mount package. It allows wider coverage than traditional components while providing optimized return loss for multiple frequency ranges. This allows the customer to use a single chip in multiple applications, reducing the...

Galileo is an innovative, low-profile test socket engineered to support today’s high performance Digital and RF applications. It leverages proven interposer elastomer technology and advanced 3D printing manufacturing to provide a high-performance solution for BGA, LGA, QFP, SOIC, or QFN packaged devices with extremely short lead times.

Join our webinar on Monday October 20th 11am PDT to learn from our industry experts Engineering Director, Doug LaFreniere and Product Director, David Popelka as they share Antenna challenges focused on operational requirements, enabling technologies and product solutions. By attending this webinar, you can expect to come away with: 1. Understanding UAV/communication ant...

Visit Smiths Interconnect at booth #2029 Space Tech Expo, the West Coast's premier space event consists of two days of knowledge sharing and networking alongside the largest supply chain exhibition of its kind. The free-to-attend exhibition will showcase the very latest technology from technical designers, sub-systems suppliers, manufacturers and components through to sy...

Smiths Interconnect’s subsystem contributes to the accuracy of the Ground/Dismount Moving Target Indicator (GMTI) technology and enables the Lynx radar system to distinguish slow moving targets from stationary clutter. Smiths Interconnect’s extensive experience in the design and manufacture of highly integrated subsystems was instrumental in the choice of the supplier fo...

Smiths Interconnect had developed a custom docking connector for a leading manufacturer of digital x-ray detectors, which now required a tether cable to mate to the same target connector on their detectors.

Testing during manufacturing plays a key role in ensuring reliable and repeatable performance. A semiconductor fabrication plant combines precise control of every process parameter with testing at each stage of production to weed out faulty parts as early as possible. Semiconductor die are first tested for basic functionality at the wafer level. Any failures are discard...

Although rail technology has progressed leaps and bounds, the operating environment for communication technologies still presents extreme challenges - with the ever-present dust, moisture, dirt, and oil as well as heat, electromagnetic interference, shock and vibration all vying to disrupt or fatally corrupt the connections.

Leveraging its expertise in embedded optical communication modules for defense and aerospace, Smiths Interconnect offers radiation-resistant optical transceivers aimed at the space market with the introduction of the SpaceABLE™ and SpaceCONEX™ “radiation resistant” line of products.

Optical interconnect helps lowering the weight of every satellite which help reducing the launching price and the resulting price per bit for satellite operator. Optical interconnects help improve the cost-effectiveness of high-throughput LEO constellation satellites and SpaceABLE and the SpaceCONEX radiation-resistant optical transceivers, with their intrinsic radiation...

We will outline how Joule-20 can provide a drop-in replacement that can be used with existing PCB footprints, brining you increased ROI in both Engineering / Characterization applications as well as High Volume Manufacturing.

During the webinar, Smiths Interconnect experts will demonstrate key advantages of the technology supported by examples, applications and success stories. Among these we will discuss the proper mating, low cost of ownership, high reliability, contact design, operating environment.

This webinar will describe why optic communications in space are a key element of the success of new global connectivity networks. From intra-satellite to inter-satellite high speed links, optical communication over fiber optics or over optical wireless terminals can help by extracting the most from the communication architectures while offering low SWaP.