IT Datacom
With our industry-leading high-speed, power and fiber optic technologies, together with superior simulation and testing capability and cost-effectiveness, Amphenol is a market leader in interconnect development for the information technology (IT) and datacom market. Whether industry standard or application-specific designs are required, we can provide customers with products that enable performance at the leading edge of next-generation, high-speed, power and fiber optic technologies. Our primary end applications include cloud computing and data centers, gaming systems, internet appliances, networking equipment, servers, storage systems, transmission and web service providers.
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Chameleon®
With performance speeds up to 25 Gbps+, Chameleon meets the demand for faster, smaller, and more compact connector solutions. With stack heights from 6mm to 10mm in 1mm increments, pin counts from 40 to 500+, and pair counts from 16 to 160, Chameleon provides you with a ready platform to easily change and adapt to your design requirement.
cLGA®
The Amphenol ICC cLGA® land grid array socket system was designed to bring conventional connector material construction to high-performance, low-cost chip-to-board applications. cLGA® sockets are used in applications ranging from handheld computer products to supercomputer systems. The cLGA® socket is fully qualified under Telcordia GR-1217-CORE specifications.
Coaxial Fixed Attenuators
Amphenol RF attenuators are designed to offer flat attenuation over the designated frequency range and feature a microwave grade resistor that consistently reduces power. Hex flats on the body allow this attenuator to be easily torqued to the mating connector.
Coaxial Inserts
Size 8 coaxial inserts for DIN and D-Sub applications. Available for common flexible coaxial cables.
Combo-D
Positronic Combo-D connectors are a combination of signal and power and are part of the D-sub family. Combo-D connectors are used in military, communications, space, industrial, and medical applications. These connectors are available in various performance levels for the best cost/performance ratio.
ComboLock® Wire-to-Board Connector System
The ComboLock® Wire-to-Board connector's compact design for the limited space application needs carries power and signal requirements. The connector system has hybrid 1.00mm pitch signal and 3.00mm pitch power configuration with an active latching feature. The connector has a nominal current carrying capacity of 10A/pin max for power and 1.5A/pin max for signal. Power wire sizes from 26 to 18AWG
Compression Connectors
COMPRESSION-TYPE SURFACE MOUNT CONNECTORS FOR HDD (HARD DISK DRIVE)
Compression connectors are customizable single-piece solutions that facilitate read & write functions in traditional low-cost bulk-storage HDDs and helium HDDs.
Conan® Lite 1.00mm Connector
Conan® Lite 1.00mm connectors come with a robust metal down feature that helps in establishing a reliable connection with the PCB in both parallel and perpendicular board-to-board applications. These connectors also feature an audible "click" sound ensuring mating in place. Conan® Lite vertical headers, receptacles, and right-angle headers are offered in 9-69 positions.
Cool Edge 0.80mm Hybrid Power & Signal Connectors
Cool Edge Hybrid Power and Signal connectors provide a one-piece high speed and high power card-edge package. These versatile solutions address multiple standards like PCIe, SAS, SATA, and offer multiple BTB configurations such as mezzanine, coplanar, and midplane/backplane. Moreover, the connectors are designed as Open Pin Field and are hot-plug capable.
Cool Edge 1.00mm PCIe Connectors
Cool Edge PCIe® connectors bring high-speed PCIe® support into a one-piece card edge package with 16GT/s Gen 4 and 32GT/s Gen 5 capabilities. Slim connector design saves space on the motherboard while facilitating other higher-density applications. These connectors come with a simple housing design with an overall reduced footprint, providing additional benefits over standard PCIe® CEM solutions.
CoolPower® SDM Connectors
CoolPower® Slim Drawer Mini (SDM) Connectors offer a high level of mating configuration flexibility, current density, and a thin profile making it ideal for compact board-to-board power interconnects. The CoolPower® SDM series is available with two or four power lines and boasts up to 318A per linear inch in a footprint of only 5.6mm x 14mm.
CoolPower® Slim Drawer
Amphenol's CoolPower® Slim Drawer Series is configurable to accommodate various combinations of power and signal contacts and a number of mounting and termination options. CoolPower® Slim Drawer can deliver up to 60A per pin and provides an ultra-low end-of-life contact resistance of just 0.4mΩ. Additional features include blind-mating, sequential mating, and true hotplug capabilities.
Cool Stack 0.80mm Hybrid Power & Signal Connectors
Cool Stack Hybrid Power and Signal connectors provide one-piece high speed and high power solutions while addressing multiple networking standards like PCIe, and SAS/SATA. It offers a maximum current rating of 16A per power pin, which aids in supporting applications with medium power requirements.
Crossbow™
Crossbow allows designers to take advantage of all the benefits associated with orthogonal mid-plane architectures as the differential pairs on each side of the mid-plane share vias creating a straight pass-through connection. This shared via approach combined with the Crossbow footprint, eliminates most electrical problems associated with the typical backplane via stub.
cStack™
The Amphenol ICC cStack™ high-speed solder-less interconnect solution provides limitless flexibility for board-to-board mezzanine applications and board-to-board stackable and coplanar applications when terminated to a flex circuit.
cStack™ Flex Cables
Amphenol's cStack™ flexible circuit assemblies are designed for applications where flexibility, space, weight, and performance are critical. They are available in standard and custom flex circuit and connector designs. cStack™ Flex is a compression-based interconnect utilizing Amphenol's cStack™ interposer terminated to a multi-layer impedance-controlled flexible circuit in a compact footprint.
Custom Flex Cables
Amphenol's Flex Cable Assemblies provide value-added solutions to challenging interconnect problems where a flexible solution is desirable. Amphenol flex cables can be engineered to use any mezzanine connector in the Amphenol portfolio to meet unique signal integrity, mechanical, power, and environmental requirements.
CXP
CXP connector comes in a one-piece Press-Fit assembly that provides one-step placement to the board to accommodate single, ganged, or stacked connector configurations in high-density requirements. CXP system has twelve channels for up to 20 Gbps, resulting in 240 Gbps of total bandwidth. This allows our CXP to go beyond the 100 Gigabit Ethernet IEEE 802.3ba & the InfiniBand CXP12x QDR standards.
CXP2 Active Optical Cable
HIGH DENSITY, EXCELLENT PERFORMANCE AND RELIABILITY
Amphenol's 300G CXP2 to CXP2 Active Optical Cable is a natural choice for optical cabling in data center/high-performance computing hardware applications, providing a cost-effective plug-and-play cabling solution. The CXP2 form factor delivers the highest hardware faceplate port density among existing SFF industry standards.
CXP Passive Copper Cable Assemblies 120G/168G/300G
Amphenol's CXP passive copper cable assemblies are designed to meet the high bandwidth capacity demands being requested by data centers and high-performance computing applications. The CXP copper cables are a high-density cabling interconnect system capable of delivering aggregate data bandwidths of 120Gb/s and 168 Gb/s.
DDR2 SO-DIMM Memory Module Sockets
DDR2 SO-DIMM sockets are designed to accept modules that conform to JEDEC MO-224. The sockets come with a small form factor which allows fitting into smaller chassis, aiding the development of smaller & lighter notebooks. It comes in two voltage options with different key-ID to prevent incorrect mating. It operates at a higher speed & bandwidth lowers power consumption.
DDR3 Memory Module Sockets
DDR3 vertical DIMM sockets are designed to accept 240 position DDR3 memory modules that conform to JEDEC M0-269. Low-resistance contacts support the use of RDIMM (registered DIMM), which helps to further reduce power consumption in data center hardware.
DDR4 Memory Module Sockets
Vertical DDR4 DIMM sockets from Amphenol provide 288 contacts on 0.85mm pitch and are designed to accept DDR4 memory modules that conform to JEDEC MO-309. The DDR4 series complies with the new interface standard JEDEC POD12. It allows a module seating plane of 2.40mm and supports module variants in UDIMM, RDIMM, and LRDIMM.
DDR4 SO-DIMM Memory Module Sockets
HIGH-SPEED HIGH-DENSITY SO-DIMM SOCKETS
DDR4 SO-DIMM connectors deliver high-speed and bandwidth. Being half the size of regular DIMMs, they lower power consumption and promote better thermal management. Different key positions aid alignment and prevent mismating. 260 position SO-DIMM connectors are available in 4.00mm, 5.20mm, 8.00mm, 9.20mm height, in standard or reverse options.
DDR4 Ultra Low Profile Memory Module Sockets
DDR4 Ultra Low Profile (ULP) vertical DIMM sockets provide 288 contacts on 0.85mm pitch. It facilitates convenient memory expansion in servers, workstations, desktop PCs, and embedded applications in communications and industrial equipment. With an ultra-low module seating height of 1.1mm and connector height of 13.1mm, it reduces the overall profile of the connector.
DDR5 Memory Module Sockets (SMT)
COMPLIES TO NEW INTERFACE STANDARD JEDEC SO-023
Vertical DDR5 DIMM sockets from Amphenol provide 288 contacts on 0.85mm pitch and are designed to accept DDR5 memory modules that conform to JEDEC MO-329. The sockets facilitate convenient memory expansion in servers, workstations, desktop PCs, and embedded applications in communications and industrial equipment.
DDR5 SO-DIMM Connectors
HIGH-SPEED HIGH-DENSITY SO-DIMM SOCKETS
DDR5 SO-DIMM connectors deliver high-speed and bandwidth. Being half the size of regular DIMMs, they lower power consumption and promote better thermal management. 262 positions SO-DIMM connector is available in 4.00mm height with the standard option. Sketching design of DDR5 SO-DIMM 8.00mm height with the standard option now.
DensiShield® High Speed Cable Connector
Amphenol's DensiShield® I/O system is designed to support the transmission of high-speed, serial differential signals while taking customers' equipment packaging requirements into consideration. Combining high density, mechanical robustness, and ease of PCB assembly with excellent shielding and signal integrity performance means that system designers no longer have to compromise.
DIN 41612 Accessories
ACCESSORIES FOR HARSH ENVIRONMENT CONNECTOR APPLICATIONS
SHROUDS
LATCHES AND THEIR FRAMES
DIN POLARIZING KEY
HOOD/COVER SET
DIN 41612 Headers and Receptacles
FCI Basics DIN 41612 connector systems are the most popular backplane interconnect systems in IEC 603-2 specifications due to the widespread standard adoption, easy availability, cost-effectiveness, and durability. The product design for Board-to-Board and I/O solutions involve both standard mount and reverse mount mating combination.
DIN IDC Cable Connectors and Cable Assemblies
FCI Basics DIN IDC cable connectors are available in 4 connector sizes as 96, 42, 21, and 9 positions. Available in wire sizes 30AWG to 24AWG, their unique insulation displacement design grants the lowest installed cost for users. Standard accessories are also offered to make up a fully modular system.
Double Density Cool Edge 0.80mm Connectors and Cable Assemblies
The 0.80mm pitch DDCE connectors and cable assemblies offer a compact design with 2 rows of contacts. This highly configurable single-piece connector can accommodate both high-speed and low-speed signal and power. This hybrid connector reduces more than half of the PCB footprint when compared to 1.00mm PCIe Cool Edge. It supports PCIe Gen 5 and is designed for multiple Add-In- Card thicknesses.
DSFP 56G PAM4 SMT Connector
DSFP SMT Connectors offer dual high-speed lanes operating at 28Gb/s NRZ and 56Gb/s PAM-4 for a 50G & 100G aggregated bandwidth solution. It has additional 2 pins compared to the SFP/SFP+ family, which enables it to have a second high-speed channel with an identical connector form factor. The DSFP shares the same unique mating interface and EMI cage dimensions as the whole range of SFP/SFP+ cages.
D-Sub Accessories
FCI Basics D-Sub Accessories complement FCI Basics D-sub offering by accounting for the moderate to severe mechanical stresses encountered, and preventing risks like pulling up and accidental mismating. The range of derived accessories includes plastic or metalized plastic hoods, EMI/RFI shielded two-part metal hoods, various cable clamps, locking devices, dust caps, and brackets.
D-Sub Cable Connectors
FCI Basics D-Sub Cable Connectors span across signal and power applications in computer equipment, cash register, and high-end industrial cabinets. Signal connectors are available as removable crimp contacts, and power connectors in crimp, solder bucket, and wire wrap terminations.
D-Sub Dual Port Connectors
Amphenol ICC's D-Subminiature product line offers a wide range of termination options for board and cable ends, bringing down the overall cost of cable assembly and connectors significantly. The terminations include Straight, Right Angle, SMT, Press Fit, and Slim Sunk for board side, and Solder Cup, Crimping, IDC Ribbon, Solderless Wire Wrap, and Screw Termination for cable side.
D-Sub Economy Range Board-Mount Connectors
FCI Basics D-Sub Economy Range Board-Mount Connectors are proven solutions designed to meet less demanding applications while meeting all their design requirements. These connectors have guaranteed durability of 50 mating cycles. Board connectors are available in straight and right-angle versions, while cable connectors are available in solder bucket and crimp styles.
D-Sub High Density Board-Mount Connectors
FCI Basics D-Sub High-Density Board-Mount Connectors, based on the compact-D form factor, complete your board and system designs by providing high-density and high-speed interfaces. The high-speed, power, assembly, and mechanical packaging expertise, aids in getting the signals out of the box at optimal cost and performance, while accommodating up to 78 positions in standard shell sizes.
D-Sub High Density Connectors
Amphenol ICC's D-Subminiature high-density product line offers a wide range of termination options for board and cable ends, bringing down the overall cost of cable assembly and connectors significantly. The terminations include Straight, Right Angle, SMT, Press Fit, and Slim Sunk for board side, and Solder Cup, Crimping, IDC Ribbon, Solderless Wire Wrap, and Screw Termination for cable side.
D-Sub High Density Connectors
The I/O connection system has been a common interface to electronic applications for a long time. These products are applied to nearly all markets & applications, from industrial control to telecommunications. ALTW D-Sub connectors are developed in 5 different standard housing fit for standard/high-density pin contact & sealed for ingress protection up to IP68.
D-Sub Hybrid Connectors
Amphenol ICC's TW Hybrid D-Subminiature connectors offer a wide range of termination options for board and cable ends, bringing up an overall solution of cable and PCB assemblies. The terminations include Straight and Right Angle for the board side, and Solder Cup and Crimping (for power pin only) for the cable side. Each termination variant has both socket and plug connectors.
D-Sub MicroTCA Connectors
FCI Basics D-Sub MicroTCA Connectors are power module I/O interconnects for 48V applications designed in accordance with TCA specifications. The concept is based on the single-shell Delta D design, and power contacts handle up to 24A. PCB connectors are proposed in traditional Solder-to-board and Pin-in-Paste versions for optimized applied cost.
D-Sub Pin-in-Paste Connectors
FCI Basics D-Sub Pin-in-Paste Connectors are now available in Pin-in-Paste (Through Hole Reflow) versions in standard and compact form factors. Pin-in-Paste technology (PiP) allows the use of Through Hole products in SMT manufacturing processes. The connectors use high-temperature thermoplastic that can withstand reflow soldering temperatures up to 260°C to facilitate PiP soldering.
D-Sub Power Board-Mount Connectors
FCI Basics D-Sub Power Board-Mount Connectors features full power and mixed power versions specifically developed for power applications in industrial and telecom market segment. Board connectors feature preloaded power contacts from 10 to 40A with up to 8 contacts in full power versions. Cable crimp and solder power contacts feature colour-code plastic clips for easy wire gauge identification.
D-Sub Press-Fit Connectors
FCI Basics D-Sub Press-fit Connectors are available in single-shell Delta-D, high density, and mixed power designs, saving the cost of an additional wave soldering. The "Eye of the Needle" termination technique combined with a unique flat-rock design supports easy application by pressure on the insulator. Insertion kits are available for the process.
D-Sub Slimline
ULTRA SLIM D-SUB CONNECTORS
FCI Basics has expanded the D-Sub connectors with a modified ultra-slim body with contact alignment in a single row. These are available both in SMT termination suitable for reflow soldering and solder tail version for standard wave soldering. These connectors also feature solderable retention pegs that absorb vibration.
D-Sub Waterproof Connectors
Amphenol ICC's IP67 Waterproof D-Subminiature product line offers the terminations for board and cable ends, bringing down the overall cost of cable assembly and connectors significantly. The terminations include Straight and Right Angle for the board side and Solder Cup for the cable side. Each termination variant has both socket and plug connectors.
Dubox® 2.54mm
The Dubox®, connector family offers an extensive range of through-hole and surface-mount part options. It is available in single or double-row in both straight and right angle orientations from 2 to 50 positions, with a maximum current rating of 3A per individual contact. This cost-efficient solution offers high reliability in electrical performance.
Dubox® 2.54mm Crimp to Wire
The Dubox®, connector families offer an extensive range of through-hole and surface-mount part options, including single or double-row in either straight or right-angle orientation from 2 to 50 positions, with a current rating of 3A (maximum) per individual contact. The Dubox® contact has a pre-stressed, dual-beam design to enable low insertion force, 4-wall contact design for signal protection.
Elite®
ULTRA-HIGH DENSITY BACKPLANE INTERCONNECT SOLUTION
Ultra-High density 56+ Gbp/s PAM4 interconnect platform utilizing proven press-fit technology and a single wafer design optimized for traditional backplane, direct orthogonal, and cable design solutions.