MICTOR
MICTOR is an acronym for Matched Impedance ConnecTOR, a product line of vertical board to board connectors. Produced by TE Connectivity, they are attached to printed circuit boards using surface-mount technology.[1] They can be used for probing boards.
Usage
[edit]MICTOR are used in HP and Tektronix logic analyzers.[2] Connectors can be used even for very-high frequency applications, up to 100-ps rise time.[3]
Some of Mictor signals can be used for JTAG, e.g. in FPGA debugging variants of the connector.[4] Along with JTAG, Mictor connectors can also carry hardware trace signals like ARM CoreSight ETM (Embedded Trace Macrocell) or PTM (Program Trace Macrocell).[5]
Variants
[edit]Minimal variant of MICTOR consists of 38 signal positions; larger variants are designed up to 266 signals (with 38 increments). Connector is usually surface mounted.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ TE Connectivity (TE) MICTOR Connectors
- ^ Jack G. Ganssle, The Art of Designing Embedded Systems, page 158
- ^ Microelectronics Packaging Handbook: Subsystem packaging, page III-439
- ^ Deep Memory Yields Effective In-System Debugging XCell, 2002
- ^ Lauterbach's ARM Connector Specification p. 18
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