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FCI AirMax VS® Connectors

Shield-less High-Performance Connector System

The FCI AirMax VS® (Virtual Shield) Connector System is based on a unique connector design that eliminates the need for interleaving shields by using air as a highly efficient dielectric between conductors. The elimination of these shields reduces the connector weight, cost, and PCB routing complexity. AirMax VS gives designers the flexibility to develop their present systems for 2.5 Gb/s to 6.25 Gb/s, and the scalability to grow their systems to over 12 Gb/s without having to perform a costly redesign to the basic platform. AirMax VS connectors demonstrate exceptionally low insertion loss and crosstalk characteristics, and are available in both 2 and 3 mm centerlines to simplify signal routing with 3, 4, and 5 pair configurations.

New! FCI Airmax VS product line includes Hard Metric and High Speed versions.

FCI AirMax VS® Connectors

Features
  • Enables backplane, midplane, orthogonal midplane, coplanar, mezzanine, and cable-to-board applications
  • Full set building blocks compatible with Hard Metric equipment practice
  • Innovative shield-less design delivers low loss and crosstalk
  • Supports high-speed differential signaling at data rates up to 12.5 Gb/s
  • Opposed dual-beam receptacle contact structure provides high reliability
  • Qualification to Telcordia® GR-1217-CORE Central Office 0requirements
  • Elimination of interleaving shields reduces connector weight, cost, and PCB routing complexity
  • Flexibility to assign contacts to differential or single-ended signals or low-level power within a module
  • AirMax VS 85-ohm versions are optimized for use in 85-ohm channels, such as Intel® QPI links
  • Backward compatible to legacy 100-ohm product interfaces
  • Lead-free and RoHS-compatible

Applications
  • Data
    • Rack-Mount Servers
    • Blade Servers
    • External Storage Systems
  • Communications
    • Switches
    • Routers
    • Wireless Base Stations
    • Network Access/Aggregation
    • Transport
  • Industrial
    • Medical
    • Test & Measurement
Mechanical Specifications
  • Durability: 200 cycles
  • Mating force: 0.45N maximum/contact
  • Unmating force: 0.15N minimum/contact
  • Compliant pin insertion force:
    • Vertical headers, right-angle headers or right-angle receptacles: 40N maximum
    • Vertical receptacles: 25N maximum

Physical Specifications
  • Contacts: Copper alloy
  • Contact finish
    • Performance-based plating over nickel at separable interface
    • Tin over nickel on press-fit tails on standard lead-free products. Tin-lead option available upon request.
  • Housings: High-temperature thermoplastic, UL 94V-0

Electrical Specifications
  • Compact Hard Metric high power modules rated for up to 20A or 40A per contact
  • HCI® high-power modules rated for up to 83A per power contact

100Ω Connectors Electrical Specifications
  • Differential impedance: 100 ± 8Ω @ 50 ps (10-90%) rise time
  • Differential insertion loss: < 1dB through 6.25 Gb/s < 1.5 dB through 12.5 Gb/s
  • Near-end crosstalk (multi-active): < -38 dB through 6.25 Gb/s; < -28 dB through 12.5 Gb/s
  • Far-end crosstalk (multi-active): < -41 dB through 6.25 Gb/s; < -28 dB through 12.5 Gb/s

85Ω Connectors
  • Differential impedance: 85 ± 5Ω @ 50 ps (10-90%) rise time
  • Differential insertion loss: < 1.5 dB through 8 Gb/s
  • Near-end crosstalk (multi-active): < -30 dB through 8 Gb/s

Hard Metric

FCI AirMax VS® Hard Metric Connectors use a shield-less design with an air di-electric between conductors and are designed to provide options for the protected receptacle to be on the backplane/midplane or on the daughter card. Options for the FCI AirMax VS® Hard Metric Connectors include a range of differential pairs/column, column pitches, or column counts, optimized for either 100Ω or 85Ω impedance to match channel impedance and reduce loss, halogen-free signal modules, and the availability of power and guide modules to complement the signal connector offering.


FCI AirMax VS ® Hard Metric Connectors
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High Speed

FCI Airmax VS® 4 signal pair High Speed Signal Connectors are designed to meet Compact PCI Serial (PICMG CPCI-S.O) Spec and support high speeds of up to 12.5Gbps.




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