• DocumentCode
    3348593
  • Title

    Inductively Coupled Board-to-Board Connectors

  • Author

    Chandrasekar, Karthik ; Feng, Zhiping ; Wilson, John M. ; Mick, Stephen ; Franzon, Paul

  • Author_Institution
    North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC
  • fYear
    2005
  • fDate
    May 31 2005-June 3 2005
  • Firstpage
    1109
  • Lastpage
    1113
  • Abstract
    This paper discusses the potential application of inductive coupling elements as backplane connectors. Tradeoffs in the choice of inductive elements are discussed and a simple circuit model for electrically large board-to-board transformers is presented. Measured data for a 10mm outer diameter transformer shows an acceptable eye opening for 400Mbps NRZ data, and over 1GHz of bandwidth in the frequency domain. We also discuss how inductive connectors could find application in future long range FR4 backplanes
  • Keywords
    electric connectors; integrated circuit interconnections; integrated circuit modelling; 10 mm; 400 Mbit/s; FR4 backplane; NRZ data; backplane connector; board-to-board connector; board-to-board transformer; circuit model; frequency domain; inductive connector; inductive coupling element; Backplanes; Bandwidth; Connectors; Coupling circuits; Frequency domain analysis; Inductance; Inductors; Rough surfaces; Surface roughness; Transformers;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Electronic Components and Technology Conference, 2005. Proceedings. 55th
  • Conference_Location
    Lake Buena Vista, FL
  • ISSN
    0569-5503
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-8907-7
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ECTC.2005.1441411
  • Filename
    1441411