Patent ID: 7967647

Claim:
A method to adjust electrical characteristics of an orthogonal printed circuit board connector footprint, comprising the steps of: making a first electrical connector comprising two electrically-conductive contacts aligned to define a differential signal pair and separated from one another by a first distance; making a second electrical connector comprising two second electrically-conductive contacts aligned to define a second differential signal pair and also separated from one another by the first distance; offsetting mounting portions of the two electrically-conductive contacts a first distance with respect to each other to form a first connector footprint that corresponds to a first substrate footprint with a first impedance; and offsetting second mounting portions of the two second electrically-conductive contacts a second distance with respect to each other to form a second connector footprint that is different than the first connector footprint and corresponds to a second substrate footprint with a second impedance that is different than the first impedance.