General Description
Squid PCIe Gen 3 Carrier Board™ for six M.2/NGSFF(NF1) SSD modules.
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General Description
2.1
Introduction
Squid
PCI Express family is a series of PCIe Carrier Boards designed for desktop
computers, servers, embedded appliances or storage expansion.
Squid
family expands a
motherboard’s PCIe slot with multiple full/half-size MiniPCI Express or multiple
M.2/NGSFF(NF1) PCI Express SSD modules.
The carrier board is a full-height PCIe board, and occupies the space equal to a standard
one-slot wide PCIe board, as defined by the PCIe Specification. It is located in the middle of
motherboard’s PCIe slot, and connects to the motherboard via exchangeable x8 or x16 PCIe
upstream adapters. This unique PCI Express structure (US. Pat #9,996,495) allows for
allocating of multiple PCIe M2/NGSFF(NF1) modules on the top and bottom sides of the
carrier board without violation PCI Express Specification.
This carrier board has six M.2 (M-key) circuits. Three circuits are placed on the top
(component) side of the board, and another three circuits are placed on the bottom
(soldering) side of the board. Each circuit support any M.2/NGSFF(NF1) PCI express
module (M-key) with a standard length of 80 mm and 110 mm. and width up to 32 mm.
This carrier board has two new futures:
•
Real-time performance and temperature monitoring via USB port;
•
On-board Batteryless Data Logger with a backup status indication
(US. Pat. #10,481.660).
