Industry News

Ardent Concepts Aims to Eliminate SMT Connectors with QUICKLINK Coaxial Connector

Ardent Concepts, Inc. looks to upend the status quo by introducing a twist-to-lock compression mount connector that replaces cumbersome surface mount connectors that require a receptacle on the PCB. Ardent’s patented QUICKLINKTM Connector mounts directly to the PCB with a twist-to-lock footprint design that requires only two small thru holes and a gold pad for the connector to land on. QUICKLINK footprints can be placed anywhere on your board to allow easy access to any channels from your device without having to solder on costly SMA or SMP surface mount receptacles.


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USB

Teledyne LeCroy Releases USB Type-C™ Compliance Suite

Teledyne LeCroy, a worldwide leader in serial data test solutions has announced the release of the USB Type-C™ Compliance Suite for the Voyager M310C SuperSpeed USB 3.1 protocol verification platform. Based on USB-IF's USB Type-C Functional Verification Specification, this automated test suite allows developers to verify the logical USB Type-C port operation and verify compliance to the verification specification for devices utilizing the USB Type-C interface.


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