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Chapter 3
Functional Description
3.1 Overview
This chapter describes the functional blocks of the PCIE-6001 card. The PCIE-6001
provides four M.2 card sockets, each accept a PCIe x4 solid state drive for use by any
processor installed in the system using the MaxCore’s PCIe Switch.
The PCIE-6001 payload card connects four M.2 sockets, each with a dedicated four-lane
PCIe Gen 3 interface to the MaxCore backplane. The backplane can then be configured to
connect individual sockets to microserver CPUs.
The following figure depicts the functional block diagram of PCIE-6001 card.
3.2 Power
Both 3.3V and 12V power are provided to the PCIE-6001 through the PCIe gold fingers
(through the +3.3V Aux and +12V rails respectfully).
Figure 3-1 PCIE-6001 Block Diagram