Design of active connector for high speed serial link interconnection

In this paper, an active connector is designed and simulated for high speed serial link interconnection. The connector design consists of three main parts; plug, receptacle, and paddle board. For achieving high bandwidth performance, the key difference of the proposed connector, comparison to the general connector structure, is that the active equalizer is integrated on the paddle board. The connector model is designed and simulated for this study, and the result shows this proposed connector structure is good for high bandwidth interconnection up to 20 Gbps.