Inventec Corp.

Sq Technology(shanghai) Corporation

Hong-Chou Lin

Yu-Fan Chen

Li-Hong Huang

Wenwen Song

Zhenwei Li

Muxin Wang

Kangguang Zhu

Huaxin Hu

A server motherboard control method is applicable to a system including two control components and a programmable logic component, wherein the first control component is preset to have a control right, the server motherboard control method includes: determining whether to obtain the control right from the first control component by the second control component; performing a firmware update operation on the programmable logic component by one of the first control component and the second control component that has the control right; obtaining two control signals from the first control component and the second control component respectively through two registers and comparing two pulse width modulation values of the two control signals by the programmable logic component; and transmitting one with a larger pulse width modulation value of the two control signals to a component to be controlled to control the component to be controlled by the programmable logic component.

Server motherboard control method

A power distribution board includes a complex programmable logic device (CPLD), a first buck chip and a second buck chip. The first buck chip is connected to the complex programmable logic device. The first buck chip is configured to receive a first direct current (DC) voltage, lower the first DC voltage to a first voltage, and supply the first voltage to the complex programmable logic device. The second buck chip is configured to receive a second direct current voltage, lower the second direct current voltage to a second voltage, and supply the second voltage to a power module. The first direct current voltage and the second direct current voltage has a same voltage value.

Power distribution board

A dual system server includes: a central processing unit, a first baseboard management controller, a second baseboard management controller and a complex programmable logic device. The first baseboard management controller is connected to the central processing unit through a first peripheral component interconnect express interface. The second baseboard management controller is connected to the central processing unit through a second peripheral component interconnect express interface. The complex programmable logic device is connected to the first baseboard management controller through a first inter-integrated circuit interface, and is connected to the second baseboard management controller through a second inter-integrated circuit interface.

Dual system server

A double-layer rack includes a PCIe card frame, a network card frame, a PCIe riser card and a network card connector assembly. The PCIe card frame is stacked on the network card frame. The network card frame has a network card accommodation space for selectively receiving one OCP network card, two OCP network cards or one data processing unit. The PCIe riser card is disposed in the PCIe accommodation space. The network card connector assembly is disposed in the network card accommodation space. The double-layer rack further includes a blocker component and a divider plate selectively and removably disposed on the network card frame, so that the network card accommodation space forms various accommodation space configurations for selectively receiving the one OCP network card, the two OCP network cards or the one data processing unit.

Double-layer rack

The present invention provides a server architecture, which comprises a plurality of first middle planes disposed horizontally in the server chassis, and each of the first middle plane electrically coupled to a server board such that the server board is also horizontally disposed in the server chassis. By means of the server architecture in the present invention, in addition to providing a hot-swappable function to the server board, for the whole server system, horizontally arranged first middle plane and server board will not block the route for heat dissipating flow so that the heat dissipating efficiency with respect to the server will not be reduced.

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Taipei, Taiwan

Hong-Chou Lin