Firefly® Direct Connect

The FireFly® Direct Connect demo is a live 56G PAM4 demonstration of how Samtec optical and Eyespeed Twinax connectors can attach directly to the chip package. This gives the benefit of exiting a higher number of lanes at low loss from the chip package, which can be very useful in both high performance computing and network switching applications, especially at 56G/112G PAM4. Samtec is the only company that offers both optical and copper connectivity to the same connector, giving designers the flexibility of choosing the appropriate solution for their application.