The demand for connectors in miniaturized intelligent devices

The design of smaller, more powerful, and interconnected new intelligent devices requires higher performance antennas, PCB connectors, and other components. These design challenges lie in manufacturing suitable application equipment and components. Strategic connector selection and positioning are the first steps to maintaining performance and reliability. In this article, connector manufacturers mainly share the design challenges brought by miniaturized intelligent devices for connectors!

Electronic devices are increasingly using one or more wireless technologies to connect to the Internet of Things (IoT). Smart IoT devices such as smartphones, watches, and medical devices are just a small part of the many technologies that have become more powerful through connector connectivity.

However, integrating multiple wireless technologies into small IoT devices presents unique design challenges, many of which are portable, wearable, or operate in harsh environments and must provide long lifespan and high performance. Fully considering the impact on all components (including antennas and PCB connectors) during the design phase is a key step in avoiding unexpected performance issues, which may lead to design changes, increased costs, and delayed time to market.

In smart devices, connectors are an important interconnecting component. As the size of application devices shrinks, the design of connectors is also shrinking, but strategic device design is still needed. Because the size of the grounding layer, distance from nearby components, installation location, PCB layout, and component selection all affect equipment performance.