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