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Flex Cable Adds Muscle to Signal Integrity, from Motion System Design

From W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.
 

 

When designers are busy building machine vision systems, cable is often an afterthought. It shouldn't be this way. If your signals can't get from here to there in one piece, your application is running blind. To prevent that, think about cabling early in the design process, especially the metallic shields that stand guard against noise-induced signal error.

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