Patent attributes
A card edge connector for providing high-speed interconnections between different printed circuit boards. The card edge connector may include a plurality of wafers, each having a plurality of conductors. The conductors may include tails at one end and mating contact portions at an opposing end. The connector may have more rows of tails than columns of mating contact portions, so that the tails extend less distance from an edge of a PCB toward its center. The connector may be formed from multiple wafers of different sizes. Shorter wafers may have mating contact portions in columns and tails in rows. Taller wafers may have mating contact portions in the same column as a respective shorter wafer and tails in a row parallel to and offset from the row of tails of the respective shorter wafer.