Hackaday

SMA Connector Footprint Design For Open Source RF Projects

When you first start out in the PCB layout game and know just enough to be dangerous, you simply plop down a connector, run a trace or two, and call it a hack. As you learn more about the finer points ...
Electronics Weekly

SMA to AMC micro-coax Wi-Fi 6 cable assemblies

Amphenol has introduced 1.13 and 1.32mm micro-coax SMA to AMC cables assemblies. “The configurations offer more efficient bandwidth sharing with excellent RF performance up to 9GHz,” according to the ...
EDN

Tapered transitions

Consider the problem of adapting a straddle-mount SMA connector for a 10-Gbps digital application (Figure 1). The microwave guru who designed this SMA connector configured it to optimally launch into ...
Electronic Design

Cinch Connectivity Solutions announces Johnson 45° PCB-mount SMA connector

WASECA, MN. Cinch Connectivity Solutions, a Bel group company, has announced the addition of a 45° connector to the SMA Series. This type of connector is commonly used in test and measurement, ...
IEEE

Sequential Buildup of Broadband Equivalent Circuit Model for Low-Cost SMA Connectors

Abstract: This paper presents a measurement-based technique for equivalent circuit modeling of various types of SubMiniature version A (SMA) connectors. The 50-Ω microstrip (MS) lines and ...
IEEE

Examination of SMA connector parameters

Abstract: This paper describes two different methods for examination of SMA connector properties. One method is based on measurement of connector scattering parameters and the second method is based ...