The “data-center product development team collaborated with the power engineering group to optimise power-contact design, thermal simulation and power dissipation”, according to the company.
Inside is up to 4A can be carried alongside 10 differential pairs and 12 single-ended connections.
Dubbed KickStart, it is aimed at boot-drive peripheral connections and “is recommended in OCP’s M-PIC specification for cable-optimised, boot-peripheral connectors”, said Molex.
A small form-factor TA-1036 cable assembly, it complies with OCP’s Data Center Modular Hardware System (DC-MHS) specification and accommodates PCIe Gen 5 signals (up to 32Gbit/s NRZ).
24AWG conductors are expected for power, 30AWG for the high speed connections and 34AWG for low speed. Operation is over -40 to +85°C.
Mated height is 11.10mm, just inside the OCP maximum.
“Planned support for PCIe Gen 6 [64Gbit/s PAM4] will meet demands for ever-increasing bandwidth requirements,” added Molex, and “the system allows for a simple cable assembly pinout from KickStart connectors to Sliver 1C for EDSFF [enterprise and data center standard form factor} hard-drive docking.
Samples of the low-profile right-angle cable are available, and you can see the connector system on stand B1 at the Open Compute Project Global Summit. A vertical exit version is planned.
