Designers of almost any type of equipment, from IoT gateways and edge devices to data-centre servers and network-infrastructure cards, are under pressure to move more data, more quickly into, through and out of their systems.

But in today's high-speed applications, on the board and throughout a system's interconnections, effects such as common-mode noise, crosstalk, and losses due to signal-path impedances can challenge signal integrity. In a new post on Engineers' Insight, Martin Keenan explains how connector choice and signal path design can offset these issues.