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US 2021/0263871 A1Published application
Multi-protocol io infrastructure for a flexible storage platform
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorsFred Worley, Harry Rogers, Sreenivas Krishnan, Zhan Ping, Michael Scriber
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Abstract
A flexible storage system. A storage motherboard accommodates, on a suitable connector, a storage adapter circuit that provides protocol translation between a host bus interface and a storage interface, and that provides routing, to accommodate a plurality of mass storage devices that may be connected to the storage adapter circuit through the storage motherboard. The storage adapter circuit may be replaced with a circuit supporting a different host interface or a different storage interface.
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A system, comprising:
- a storage board;
- a first storage circuit in communication with the storage board, the first storage circuit configured to support a first storage interface for communicating with a first storage device;
- and
- a second storage circuit in communication with the storage board, the second storage circuit configured to support a second storage interface for communicating with a second storage device,
- wherein the first storage interface is a multi-protocol interface that is different from the second storage interface.
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A storage adapter circuit, comprising:
- a first storage circuit in communication with a storage board, the first storage circuit configured to support a first storage interface for communicating with a first storage device;
- and
- a second storage circuit in communication with the storage board, the second storage circuit configured to support a second storage interface for communicating with a second storage device,
- wherein the first storage interface is a multi-protocol interface that is different from the second storage interface.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.