MICTOR is an acronym for Matched Impedance ConnecTOR, a product line of vertical

board to board connectors Board-to-board (BTB) connectors are used to connect printed circuit boards (PCB), electronic components that contain a conductive pattern printed on the surface of the insulating base in an accurate and repeatable manner. Each terminal on a BTB conn ...

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, they are attached to printed circuit boards using surface-mount technology. They can be used for probing boards. MICTOR are used in HP and Tektronix logic analyzers. Connectors can be used even for very-high frequency applications, up to 100-ps

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. Some of Mictor signals can be used for JTAG, e.g. in FPGA debugging variants of the connector. 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 Minimal variant of MICTOR consists of 38 signal positions; larger variants are designed up to 266 signals (with 38 increments). Connector is usually surface mounted.

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