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US 2017/0286353 A1Published application
Peripheral component interconnect express (pcie) card having multiple pcie connectors
AssigneeIntel Corporation
InventorsVladimir Tamarkin, Wayne Genetti, David Schweitzer
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Abstract
Some embodiments include apparatus and methods having a circuit board, a device located on the circuit board, a first Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe) connector located on the circuit board and coupled to the device, and a second PCIe connector located on the circuit board and coupled to the device. The first PCIe connector is arranged to couple to a first connector of an additional circuit board. The second PCIe connector is arranged to couple to a second connector of the additional circuit board.
Claims20
An apparatus comprising:
- a first circuit board;
- a first Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe) connector located on the first circuit board;
- a second PCIe connector located on the first circuit board;
- a second circuit board including a first PCIe slot and a second PCIe slot;
- a PCIe riser including a first end inserted into the first PCIe slot, wherein the first PCIe connector is inserted into a second end of the PCIe riser;
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- a PCIe cable coupled between the second PCIe connector and the second PCIe slot.
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An apparatus comprising:
- a first circuit board;
- a first Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe) connector located on the first circuit board, and a second PCIe connector located on the first circuit board, each of the first and second PCIe connectors including a first group of conductors on a first side of the first circuit board and a second group of conductors on a second side of the first circuit board, wherein:
- the first group of conductors of the first PCIe connector is arranged based on PCIe connector pin-out specification for a first side of a printed-circuit-board (PCB);
- the second group of conductors of the first PCIe connector is arranged based on PCIe connector pin-out specification for a second side of the PCB;
- the first group of conductors of the second PCIe connector is arranged based on PCIe connector pin-out specification for the second side of the PCB;
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- the second group of conductors of the second PCIe connector is arranged based on PCIe connector pin-out specification for the first side of the PCB;
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- a second circuit board including a PCIe slot;
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- a PCIe cable coupled between the PCIe slot and the second PCIe connector.
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An apparatus comprising:
- a first circuit board;
- a first Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe) connector located on the first circuit board;
- a second PCIe connector located on the first circuit board;
- a second circuit board including a first PCIe slot and a second PCIe slot, wherein the first PCIe connector is inserted into the first PCIe slot;
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- a PCIe cable including a first end coupled to the second PCIe slot, and a second end coupled to the second PCIe connector.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.