27 Feb
2008
27 Feb
'08
6:07 p.m.
On Wed, 27 Feb 2008, Vincent Slyngstad wrote:
Probably cheaper/board than the female part of CF socket...
Even with gold, 2 or 4 layer PCBs this size should be less than $2.00 each
Another option is PCIExpress 1X connectors, They
are cheap and more rugged
than CF sockets, and 36 pins!
Now that's an interesting idea. Digikey even has them fairly cheap,
which gets to be important if you order them 400 at a time :-).
The only problem I see with it is that it is an edge connector,
which may mean you want to spring for hard gold on the contact
fingers, which about doubles the PCB costs for the modules.
Vince
Peter Wallace