Assemblies of ribbon cable are widely used in computer internal components and parts, such as floppy drives, hard drives, and CD drives.
We can also use ribbon cables to establish connections between movable parts such as medical equipment, robots, print heads, measuring equipment and other electronic products.
One of the biggest advantages of using ribbon cables is the convenience of terminals. By using IDC connectors to maintain a fixed, constant, and controllable distance, large-scale terminations with ribbon cables can be realized.
So some ribbon cable types are IDE ribbon cable, DSI ribbon cable, HDMI ribbon cable, Raspberry Pi ribbon cable.