There are many different applications that can use ribbon cables. Ribbon cable assemblies are widely used in the internal components of computers, such as floppy disk drives, hard drives and CD drives.
You can also use ribbon cables to establish connections between movable components, such as medical equipment, robots, print heads, measuring equipment, and other electronic products.
One of the most significant advantages of ribbon cables’ usage is their termination ease, you can bring mass termination with ribbon cables by using IDC connector by keeping fixed, constant and controlled spacing.
If you have limited space, the ribbon cable is the best choice for your application. Due to the flat structure and flexibility, you can run within implementations of the straight run without any problem.
The only disadvantage of ribbon cables is that they do not allow any lateral bending. If you need to make any changes in orientation for your application, a ribbon cable will not be very helpful. And you can still bring changes to its right angle by bringing a fold in the cable.