27 Feb
2008
27 Feb
'08
5:39 p.m.
From: "Peter C. Wallace":
On Wed, 27 Feb 2008, jim s wrote:
> I'd be interested in a system that used the CF connectors to be the edge
> card connectors. they should be cheap, and would hit the form factor
> well.
Don't those have half again too many pins?
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