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mPCIE & mSATA 's coupling capacitors
What I am doing is making mPCI-E and mSATA work together in one slot on my Xilinx FPGA. PCIE always only have coupling capacitors on the TX sides(RX sides's capacitors is on the Endpoint Devices), ...
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PCIe PRST pin functionality at M.2 connector (B) with SATA device (reboot detection)
M.2 connector type (key B) support PCIe ×2, SATA, USB 2.0 and 3.0, audio, UIM, HSIC, SSIC, I2C and SMBus.
I want to use SATA interface with my device, but I need to detect the reboot of the host ...
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FPGA-based SSD host controller without transceivers
Problem: I am looking for options to design a host controller for SSD (SATA or nVME) using transceiver-less FPGA.
Question: What are the current state-of-the-art practices of doing such designs?
My ...
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PCIe - SATA bridge/host controller ICs unavailable to the hobbyist/from low volume suppliers?
I was toying with the idea of a project that would involve adding a SATA device to an existing PCIe lane; probably far too ambitious for me, but before I could confirm that I noticed that there aren't ...
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Meaning "Colay with mSATA"
In a datasheet of a embedded device (this one in my case) what does it mean that the PCIe bus is conneceted to a socket that says "Full-size Mini-PCIe (colay mSATA)"
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M.2 PCIe x2 and SATA connections and key/notch with SATA/PCIe x4 SSDs
For my current project I am adding an M.2 slot for additional storage. Even though SATA data throughput is more than sufficient I would like to support both SATA and PCIe based SSDs, as I dont know ...
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Help identifying a possible connector for these unterminated contacts on my HP Stream 14 motherbard
I'm trying to identify the appropriate connector for this bundle of unterminated contacts, from my HP Stream 14 motherboard.
I'm talking about the red circled part of the motherboard:
Here's a close ...
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M.2 Daughter card interface
I am planning to use M.2 daughter card in a design. I know that M.2 form factor support various type of cards like LTE, Wifi, BT, SSD etc. My doubt is that what is the host side interface for these ...
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Is USB-C a technically viable substitute for SATA Express connectors?
SATA Express, the successor to SATA, is too new to be widely used yet, but the advancing speed of SSDs appears to make it inevitable, the same as SATA replaced parallel IDE. Despite the name, it isn't ...
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PCI-Express on SATA or SATA on PCI-Express damaging?
OK, at first this sounds like an obvious and serious design error. But I'm trying to figure out muxing the SERDES signals on a PCI-Express Mini card, such as WiFi cards in laptops and mSATA cards in ...
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Difference between busses
I think I am confusing the difference between some of the of busses, such as IDE, SATA, USB, and PCI. What is the relationship between all four, how are they connected to each other? From what I read ...
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