Web Portal Accelerates Backplane Designs

Giving backplane designers a leg up, the DesignLink web portal offers a custom suite of proprietary engineering design tools and technical information specific to high-speed backplane design. The site features a set of interactive design tools that allow visitors to perform trade-off analysis at any phase of a backplane design cycle. Registered users can download in-depth technical documentation including application notes, schematic symbols and PCB footprints, drawings, signal-integrity reports, and mechanical models for the company’s connector platforms. These include the XCede, eHSD, GbX, VHDM, NeXLev, and Ventura families. Use of the site is currently free of charge and prospective users can request access at the company's website. For more details, call AMPHENOL CORP., Nashua, NH. (603) 879-3000.