Design and Analysis of a 10 Gbps USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C Connector for TV Set-Top Box

Recently, various high-speed connectors are used for the data transmission. With the high data rate, it is important to design the high-speed connectors considering not only mechanical but also electrical characteristics. In this paper, we propose a 10 Gbps USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C connector for TV set-top box. For the high-speed data transmission, the signal integrity (SI) including characteristic impedance, insertion loss and return loss should be considered. We verified the improved SI performance of proposed connector based on time-domain and frequency domain simulation using 3-D electromagnetic (EM) solver. Furthermore, with the proposed connector design, it shows superior SI characteristics at 20 Gbps which is expected to next generation connector's data rate.