OFC 2016 Executive Interview: Samtec, Part 1

Samtec's Kevin Burt, optical applications engineer, describes the optical interconnection of FPGAs and FPGA mezzanine cards using new transceivers.

Apr 13th, 2016
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Samtec's Kevin Burt, optical applications engineer, describes the optical interconnection of FPGAs and FPGA mezzanine cards using new transceivers.

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