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US 12,418,429 B2Granted
Modular system (switch boards and mid-plane) for supporting 50G or 100G ethernet speeds of FPGA+SSD
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorSompong Paul Olarig
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Abstract
A chassis front-end is disclosed. The chassis front-end may include a switchboard including an Ethernet switch, a Baseboard Management Controller, and a mid-plane connector. The chassis front-end may also include a mid-plane including at least one storage device connector and a speed logic to inform at least one storage device of an Ethernet speed of the chassis front-end. The Ethernet speeds may vary.
Claims22
An Ethernet device, comprising:
- a switch element, a processor, and a mid-plane connector to connect to a mid-plane;
- and
- the mid-plane including at least one storage device connector to connect to at least one storage device and a speed logic to inform the at least one storage device of a speed of the Ethernet device, the Ethernet device supporting a first Ethernet speed and a second Ethernet speed,
- wherein the Ethernet device communicates over an Ethernet connection with a second device at the speed of the Ethernet device;
- and
- wherein the storage device configures itself based at least in part on the speed of the Ethernet device received from the speed logic.
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A method, comprising:
- determining a speed of an Ethernet connection of an Ethernet switch at a speed logic from an Ethernet device, the Ethernet device supporting a first Ethernet speed and a second Ethernet speed;
- and
- informing, by the speed logic, a storage device in the Ethernet device of the speed of the Ethernet connection,
- wherein the Ethernet device communicates over the Ethernet connection with a second device at the speed of the Ethernet device, and
- wherein the storage device configures itself based at least in part on the speed of the Ethernet device received from the speed logic.
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A storage device, comprising:
- data storage to store data;
- a controller to manage reading and writing data to the data storage;
- a storage device connector to connect the storage device to a mid-plane in a chassis, the storage device connector including one or more pins;
- a bit file storage to store at least two Ethernet speed bit files;
- and
- a mapping logic to map the data from the data storage to the one or more pins on the storage device connector responsive to one of the at least two Ethernet speed bit files.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.