Smiths Interconnect

Smiths Interconnect provides high reliability connectivity products for aerospace and defence, medical, semiconductor test, industrial and rail markets. It designs and makes electronic components, microwave, optical and radio frequency products and sub systems. Its technology brands include EMC, Hypertac, IDI, Lorch, Plastronics, Reflex Photonics and RF Labs.

Its connector range includes backplane, circular, rectangular, high frequency, high speed, high power and EMI/EMP filter connectors. It also offers PCB connectors and spring probes. Its contact technologies include Hypertac hyperboloid contacts, HyperSpring contacts and Coaxtac contacts.

The company makes RF flexible and semi rigid cable assemblies, and connector cable harness solutions. It also offers medical cable assemblies and harnesses. Its RF cable assembly configurator helps customers specify products.

Its ferrite and passive components include couplers, isolators, circulators, loads and terminations, transitions and ISO adapters. It also makes RF filters, which cover frequencies from 100 kHz to 65 GHz. These include multiplexers and switched filter banks.

The optical range includes embedded transceivers and VPX optical interconnects. The website says embedded transceivers are chip sized components based on 850 nm VCSEL technology, with bandwidth up to 300 Gbps for short reach use.

For test work, the company makes board test fixture probes in more than 60 probe series, from 0.02 inch to 0.187 inch pitch. Its semiconductor test products include test sockets, WLCSP probe heads and burn in test products.

Products are organised by market, including commercial aerospace, defence, space, industrial, medical, rail, semiconductor, and test and measurement. The company says its products meet a high degree of safety and durability. Aerospace buyers can use a distributor stock check, product configuration tools and a library of technical documents.

Services

• Board test fixture probes
• Cable assemblies and harnesses
• Connectors and contact technologies
• Ferrite and passive components
• Frequency defined RF filters
• Optical transceivers
• Resistive board level components
• Semiconductor test sockets
• Distributor stock check
• RF cable assembly configurator