Patent ID: 8747164

Claim:
An electrical connector assembly comprising: a printed circuit board (PCB) comprising a card edge and a ground plane that extends along the card edge; and a card edge connector comprising: a housing having a card slot, the card slot receiving the card edge of the PCB therein, the card slot comprising opposing first and second sides; signal contacts held by the housing, the signal contacts comprising signal mating segments arranged in opposing first and second rows that extend along the opposing first and second sides, respectively, of the card slot, wherein the card edge is received within the card slot such that the ground plane extends between the opposing first and second rows of the signal mating segments, and wherein the signal mating segments within the first row are arranged in differential signal pairs; and a ground contact held by the housing, the ground contact comprising a ground mating segment that is arranged within the first row of the signal mating segments such that the ground mating segment extends between adjacent differential signal pairs within the first row.