North Carolina's Research Triangle is known for solving mysteries, in particular technical ones. That's what happens when three tier-one research universities -- North Carolina State University (NCSU) ...

French connector company Nicomatic has revealed flat flexible cables for space use. “Manufactured from NASA-grade materials, ‘FFCs for Space’ create strong board-to-board connections on PCBs and ...

A thin, flat, multiconductor cable that is widely used for internal peripheral connections in electronic systems. In a PC, a 34-wire ribbon connects the floppy drive (if present) to the motherboard. A ...

I see and have owned a bunch of x16 risers that are fat ribbon cables. Is there something that bundles the fibers together so that it's a cable instead of a ribbon cable? I would like to thread it ...

Cicoil's Flexible IDC Ribbon Cables have been designed for use on High-Precision Microelectronic Equipment Systems that require absolute reliability and zero failure. Cicoil's Flexible IDC Ribbon ...

Is there any problem with shortening the ribbon cables that come with a modular power supply, by simply clipping them off? If the connector closest to PSU is able to reach, the unneeded others and all ...

A few weeks back, we talked about the no-nos of running I²C over long wires. For prototyping? Yes! But for a bulletproof production environment, this practice just won’t make the cut. This month I ...

Your 1Gbps connection needs at least a Cat 5e cable, with Cat 6 being the recommended standard these days, especially for ...