Introduction of Flat Ribbon Cable
• Flat ribbon cable is also known as multi wire planar cables because they are the type of cable that is connected by insulated wires on a flat surface to form a ribbon shape.
• In other words, Ribbon cable have many conducting wires running in parallel on the same plane.
• These cables are usually used for the internal peripherals of the computer, such as hard disk drives, CD drives, wired robots, etc.
• This kind of cable consists of 4, 6, 8, 9, 10, 14, 16, 18, 20, 24 and up to 80 conducting wires connected in parallel.
• Flat ribbon cable is an ideal way to connect two device digitally.
• The combined impedance of any two adjacent wires in the cable is 120 ohms
• Flat ribbon cables also fold and bend readily, conforming to the mounting area, and they fasten easily with clamps, adhesive, or double-faced tape.
• Since the conductor is visible and in a fixed position in the dielectric encoding, checking and circuit tracing are simplified.
