Interconnect serves many applications

Associate Editor Rick DeMeis takes a look at recent product developments that can ease interconnection concerns

By Rick DeMeis -- Design News, February 2, 1998

Geared for digital cameras and computers, the MI20 compact flash-card interconnect system from Hirose Electric (U.S.A.) is also useful in communications, medical, and consumer-electronics applications. The system meets CFA standards. A polarized (indexed) card entry rail offers sequential (live) mating of ground, power, and signal contacts. Surface mountable, the device has two rows of 25 contacts each on 1.27-mm spacing. Hirose Electric (U.S.A.): Product Code 4168

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