Andy Bird, Managing Director, GTT Wireless
There are thousands of daughter-board manufacturers that now provide smart retrofit solutions for integrating critical component options into PCBs. Although often a last thought in PCB design, the daughter-board mounting solution has a vital role to play in ensuring accurate, reliable and secure daughter-board connector mating.
Pillars of strength for every environment
Ensuring these daughter-boards are accurately mounted and secure on the PCB is key to the success of every deployment. These 0.8μm gold plated metal daughter-board mounting pillars from GTT Wireless, provide an ideal mounting solution for fixing daughter-boards to a PCB. Daughter-board PCB integration is now easy to achieve simply and quickly while maintaining a professional finish.
Automated PCB assembly can also be accommodated through “tape and reel” options for these pillars. Given that each manufacturer will have a pre-designed connector height on the daughter-board, GTT Wireless have standard off the shelf sizes today that support 3mm, 4mm and 5mm integration heights—other connector heights can be provided.
Eliminating the opportunity for failure
Given the broad scope of daughter-board deployments to the main PCB there is no room for error when mounting them. Many deployments provide services and connectivity in hostile environments, so the mounting of the daughter-board must be secure, firm and reliable. If the mounting of the daughter-board is not appropriate for the application conditions then the consistent operation of the daughter-board components are put at risk.

The choice is yours
GTT Wireless has a range of off-the-shelf daughter-board mounting pillars that provide a smart, efficient and professional solution for mounting daughter-boards to a PCB. The mounting pillars are supplied with appropriate self-locking screws that provides the flexibility of attaching or removing the daughter-board as many times as required, resulting in much less material wastage.
This is a solution that ticks all the boxes.
For more information, specifications and pricing check out the GTT Wireless store on the Farnell website: https://uk.farnell.com/multicomp/r-14-0076/pillar-for-cinterion-module-3mm/dp/1736443


