223 results about "Riser card" patented technology

A riser card module includes a frame body, a carrier plate connected to the frame body for abutment against first surfaces of positioning plates of fixing brackets of expansion cards, a riser card disposed on the frame body and having a plurality of expansion slots for insertion therein of the expansion cards, respectively, and a limiting unit rotatable relative to the carrier plate about an axial direction which is perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of the carrier plate for abutment against second surfaces of the positioning plates of the fixing brackets of the expansion cards so as to restrict movement of the expansion cards relative to the riser card.

A physical configuration of a computer system is described. The motherboard has a first series of I / O ports at an edge thereof. A riser card is perpendicularly connected with the motherboard, wherein the riser card has a second series of I / O ports at an edge thereof. A housing encloses the motherboard and the riser card, wherein the housing has a plurality of openings, exposing each of the first series of I / O ports and the second series of I / O ports so as to form an L-shaped I / O port area on a flat surface thereof.

A substantially rigid card having a first side and an opposing second side, a first connector end adapted to mate with a first expansion connector on a circuit board and a second connector end adapted to mate with a second expansion connector on the board. A first peripheral card connector is connected to the first side and electrically connected to the first connector end, wherein the first connector is of a first form factor and adapted to mate with a first peripheral card. A second peripheral card connector is connected to the second side and electrically connected to the second connector end, wherein the second connector is of a second form factor different from the first form factor and matable with a second peripheral card. The first peripheral card connector is spaced from the first connector end a distance approximately the same as the distance the second peripheral card connector is spaced from the second connector end such that the peripheral card carried by the riser card shares approximately the same region whether the riser card is in a first or a second orientation.

A method an apparatus for providing capability information to a shared controller. In one embodiment, a peripheral bus host controller may be shared by a plurality of peripheral devices coupled to a peripheral bus. The peripheral devices may include coder / decoder (codec) circuitry, and may be implemented using a riser card. The host controller may be configured to query the bus for peripheral devices by reading each address on the bus. During the querying process, the host controller may detect one or more peripheral devices coupled to the bus. Following the completion of the querying of the bus, the host controller may then begin reading configuration information from each of the detected devices. The host controller may employ one or more of several different techniques in order to read configuration information from the peripheral device. The configuration information at a minimum includes a device identifier, which may identify the vendor and the function of the device. Additional information needed to configure the device to communicate over the peripheral bus may also be obtained with a read of the device, or various lookup mechanisms, such as a lookup table or a tree-like data structure. After configuration information has been obtained for each device coupled to the bus, the host controller may dynamically configure each of the devices for communication over the bus, thereby allowing the flexibility to enumerate riser cards and add new functions through peripheral devices to the computer system in which the bus is implemented.

A riser card for connecting at least one high-speed signal card to a mainboard is provided. The high-speed signal card includes a first connecting portion and a second connecting portion. The riser card includes a circuit board, a plurality of slots, a connection terminal, a power supply module, and a supporting board. The slots include a first slot and a second slot disposed spaced apart on a first surface of the circuit board and connected to the first connecting portion and the second connecting portion respectively of the high-speed signal card. The connection terminal connects to the mainboard. The power supply module is fixed to a second surface of the circuit board by using the supporting board and supplies power to the high-speed signal card via the circuit board, so that the high-speed signal card is able to exchange data with the mainboard via the riser card.

A method for automatically adjusting bus widths for a first slot and a second slot of a riser card according to the number of interface cards inserted to the slots. Half of the bus width for the first slot is predetermined for transferring signals. First, a detecting unit detects whether an interface card is inserted in the second slot of the riser card, if so, the detecting unit outputs a second slot enabling signal, or else, the detecting unit outputs a second slot disabling signal. A control unit is used for receiving the second slot enabling signal or the second slot disabling signal, and enabling half of the bus width for the second slot for transferring signals if the second slot enabling signal is received, or enabling the other half of the bus width for the first slot for transferring signals if the second slot disabling signal is received.

A system and method for providing an expandable, configurable and adaptable POS terminal having a common chassis in relation to a retailer's requirements without requiring a retailer to reconfigure or swap out the logic board of the POS terminal is provided. The POS terminal of the present invention includes a common chassis forming an interior compartment for housing the internal components of the POS terminal including a PC motherboard and riser cards having POS functionality. The footprint, appearance and connectivity of the POS terminal is also adaptable to reflect retailer requirements without the need to modify or exchange the logic board of the POS terminal. Such a system and method allows for improved in-field upgrades, improvements and extensions; automatic detection of configured technology via panel cards and riser cards; coupling and mixing of a plurality of connective technologies; and customization of unique connector configurations and external preferences for a specific retail environment.

The invention provides a GPU node supporting 8 GPU cards and a server system. The GPU node supporting 8 GPU cards comprises a mainboard, four Riser cards and eight GPU cards. The mainboard comprises four high-density connectors. Each high-density connector comprises a connector assembly portion and a PCIE assembly portion. The four Riser cards are correspondingly connected to the four high-density connectors by means of connector assembly portions of the Riser cards and correspondingly connected to the eight GPU cards by means of PCIE assembly portions of the four Riser cards.By adoption of the scheme, the number of using GPU cards is increased within the limited space.

Embodiments of the inventive concept include Open Cloud Server (OCS)-compliant and other enterprise servers having high-density modular non-volatile flash memory blades and associated multi-card modules. A modular non-volatile flash memory blade can be seated within a 1U tray. The flash memory blade can include a server motherboard and multiple non-volatile flash memory blade multi-card modules. Each of the multi-card modules can include a printed circuit board, a switch coupled to the printed circuit board, a module power port, an input / output port, and riser card slots to receive solid state drive riser cards. The solid state drive riser cards can be seated within a corresponding riser card slot of the multi-card modules, and can each include multiple solid state drive chips. The server motherboard can communicate with the solid state drive chips via the cable connector riser cards and associated cables. The switch can expand each upstream port to multiple downstream ports associate with the solid state drive chips.

The invention provides a configuration method. The method comprises the steps that a basic input output system (BIOS) obtains configuration information stored in a field replacement unit (FRU) of a peripheral component interconnect expression (PCIE) Riser card through a baseboard management controller (BMC); and when being started, the BIOS performs configuration on a CPU port according to the configuration information. According to the scheme, the configuration information for configuring the CPU port is stored in the FRU of the PCIE Riser card, and the configuration information is obtained through the BMC in the BIOS starting stage, so that the CPU port is configured and dynamic configuration of the CPU port is realized.

A mounting assembly includes a mounting bracket, a riser card, a shield plate attached to an expansion card, a mounting frame, and a latch member. The riser card is attached to the mounting bracket and has at least one expansion card socket. The expansion card is received in the at least one expansion card socket. The mounting frame has at least one slot configured to fix the shield plate and an accommodating space beside the at least one slot. The latch member is mounted in the accommodating space and abuts the shield plate for preventing the expansion card from moving away from the at least one expansion card socket. The latch member is capable of being taken out from the accommodating space to release the shield plate, thereby allowing the expansion card to disengage from the at least one expansion card socket.

The invention discloses a floor-sweeping robot for easy mop replacement, comprising a robot, four right angles of the bottom of the robot are provided with rollers, both sides of the robot are movably connected with mechanical arms, and the two mechanical arms are opposite to each other. One side is fixedly connected to one end of the two connecting rods respectively, and the opposite ends of the two connecting rods are respectively fixedly connected to both sides of the cylinder, and an adjustment groove is opened in the cylinder, and both sides of the inner wall of the adjustment groove are opened There is a circular groove, and a round block is sleeved in the circular groove, and the gap in the circular groove is filled with an anti-slip layer. Through the improvement of the round block, when the round block rotates in the circular groove, it can drive the adjustment rod to rotate, so that the inclination angle of the handle can be adjusted. When the two push plates are pressed relatively, the vertical plate can drive the two clamps. The block breaks away from the draw-in slot at the same time, and the pressing plate is released. Under the action of the elastic force of the extrusion spring, the vertical plate can drive the two blocks to snap into the draw-in slot, thereby achieving the effect of being convenient for installing the broom.

The invention discloses a Riser card design method capable of automatically switching PCIe signals, and relates to the field of PCIe signal management. A standard PCIe slot, an edge connector and a slimline connector are arranged in / on a Riser card; part of Pins of the slimline connector are selected as Board IDs and are connected with a programmable logic device through a circuit; the programmable logic device communicates with a BIOS; by judging difference of the Board IDs, the PCIe signals are switched; by performing Board ID design on a PCIe Riser, ID detection is performed; and the BIOS can automatically switch PCIe standard signal bandwidths on the Riser, so that the problem that a fixed PCIe Slot only can be inserted with a fixed Riser and cannot be flexibly configured is solved.

A housing for accommodating one or more riser cards is disclosed. The one or more riser cards include a first riser card. The first riser card may be configured to carry at least a first component. The housing may include a first inlet side configured to allow first air to flow into the housing for cooling the first component. The housing may also include an outlet side configured to allow at least a first portion of the first air to flow away from the housing. The housing may be configured to be disposed inside an enclosure of an electronic device. At least one of the first inlet side and the outlet side may include a first guiding structure configured to guide movement of the first riser card relative to the housing.

The invention provides an OCP riser card and computer equipment. The riser card comprises an OCP connector, a CPLD (Complex Programmable Logic Device), a selector and a mainboard connector, wherein the CPLD is a complex programmable logic device; the OCP connector is used for connecting an OCP network card; the CPLD is used for bandwidth allocation, in-place control and power-on and power-off control of the OCP network card; the selector is used for gating the single-host host or the double-host based on the working mode configuration information stored in the CPLD; the mainboard connector isused for being connected with a mainboard device. Information interaction of each module is carried out; the functions of supporting a single host and a dual host are realized; the switching of the configuration of the single host and the dual host can be realized on the premise of not opening a case to replace a cable according to requirements, so that the design complexity of the mainboard interface is simplified, the application is more flexible and diversified, and the multiplexing of other peripherals of the PCIE interface of the mainboard end is facilitated. Meanwhile, a hot plug controlcircuit is designed in two corresponding modes.

An adaptable hardware-programmable transmission interface for an industrial PC is characterized by a module switch provided on a motherboard of the industrial PC, and a plurality of riser cards, each of which is connectable to a connecting end of the motherboard and formed with one or a plurality of slots having a variety of specifications, allowing the motherboard to be significantly downsized. In addition, the same motherboard can be connected with a selected one of the different riser cards to provide lane interfaces that meet various dynamic changing needs.

The invention discloses an automatic PCIE bandwidth configuration method, a server mainboard and a server. In this scheme, the method comprises the following steps that a BMC acquires identification information of a Riser card connected with a slot on a server mainboard, bandwidth configuration information of PCIE equipment inserted into a card slot of the Riser card and information of the card slot; the Riser card can transfer and distribute the bandwidth of the slot to each card slot on the Riser card; the BIOS chip determines the bandwidth of the card slot into which the PCIE equipment is inserted according to the identification information and the identification information of the card slot; after the bandwidth required by the PCIE equipment is determined according to the bandwidth configuration information, the bandwidth of the card slot inserted into the PCIE equipment is configured, so that the allocated bandwidth of the card slot conforms to the bandwidth of the PCIE equipment.According to the scheme, different BIOS chip versions do not need to be published for different models and packages, so the BIOS chip is convenient to maintain; the manual participation is not needed, and reliability and automation degree are high.

An information handling system (IHS) server volume includes at least two pairs of flexible peripheral component interconnect express (PCIe) media for connecting data signals and power supply signals via riser cards mounted against respective PCIe devices in large adjacent physical slot locations. A first PCIe device corresponding to a first riser card and a second PCIe device corresponding to a second riser card are relatively positioned to enable the second riser card to be fitted within a specified space between the first PCIe device and the first riser card while a footprint of a first PCIe connector corresponding to the first PCIe device overlaps a footprint of a second PCIe connector corresponding to the second PCIe device. First and second PCIe cards provided by the first and second PCIe devices respectively are inserted into respective PCIe connectors via the first pair of riser cards having a dense nested arrangement.

A retaining device (10) for retaining expansion cards (20) in a chassis (300) includes a riser card (40), a pair of ejectors (50) and a bracket (100). A motherboard (200) including a connector (210) is attached in the chassis, the connector includes a top wall (211). The ejectors are pivotally attached to the riser card. A pressing portion (55) and a locking portion (57) are formed on two ends of the ejectors respectively. A pair of restraining holes (122) is defined in the bracket. A locking hole (124) is defined beside the restraining hole. The ejectors extend through the restraining holes. The riser card is attached to the bracket and the expansion card is attached to the riser card. When assembly, the riser card is inserted into the connector, the locking portions engage with the locking holes. When the ejectors are rotated inwardly, the pressing portions press against the top wall of the connector and the riser card is lifted.

A riser card assembly includes a bracket with a riser card secured therein, a handle, and a sliding mechanism. At least one expansion card is connected with the riser card and received in the bracket. The sliding mechanism slidably secures the handle to the bracket. The sliding mechanism includes at least one guiding pin formed on one of the handle and the bracket, and at least one slot receiving the guiding pin sliding therein defined in the other of the handle and the bracket. The at least one guiding pin slides in the at least one slot between a first position where the handle is in a retracted state to be together with the bracket, and a second position where the handle is in an extended state to be away from the bracket.