Dell Products Inc.

Yimin Xiao

Terry Lane Matula

Steven Michael Christensen

Jake Hill Lavallo

An information handling system, including: a printed circuit board (PCB) including: a storage device connector, a first sideband connector, and an add-in-card (AIC), including: a paddle board connector, a paddle board coupled to the paddle board connector; an expansion slot; and a second sideband connector, wherein when the paddle board is coupled to the storage device connector, the AIC is co-planar with the PCB.

Add-in-card for an information handling system

Described are an information handling system, peripheral devices, and methods to connect the information handling or host to the peripheral devices. Physical connections connect the host with the one or more peripheral devices and the peripheral devices with one another. Electrical and communication connections connect the host with the one or more peripheral devices and the peripheral devices with one another. Power and power management are provided by the host through the electrical connection. An input from the host to the peripheral devices is used to establish communication flow between the host and the peripheral devices.

Sequentially and bidirectionally connecting peripherals and devices to an information handling system

An information handling system, including two or more single-slot M.2 modules; a dual-slot discrete graphics processing unit (dGPU) module; a printed circuit board, including: a plurality of M.2 connectors aligned on a same edge of the printed circuit board such that: a first single-slot M.2 module of the two or more single-slot M.2 modules is coupled to a first M.2 connector of the plurality of M.2 connectors; a second single-slot M.2 module of the two or more single-slot M.2 modules is coupled to a second M.2 connector of the plurality of M.2 connectors; and the dual-slot dGPU module is coupled to a third and a fourth M.2 connector of the plurality of M.2 connectors.

Modular form factor of a printed circuit board for an information handling system

An information handling system includes a system board configured to serialize sideband signals from a sideband cable resulting in serialized sideband signals, and a peripheral device expansion card that has a power management embedded controller. If the sideband cable is connected to the peripheral device expansion card, then the controller may transmit the sideband signals to a card controller. If the sideband cable is not connected to the peripheral device expansion card, then the controller may decode and parallelize the serialized sideband signals resulting in parallelized sideband signals, and transmit the parallelized sideband signals to the controller. The controller determines a power state of the information handling system based on the sideband signals from the sideband cable or the parallelized sideband signals.

System and method for enabling a peripheral device expansion card without sideband cable connection

A computing system includes a system board having a system controller device with an interrupt input. A system expansion bus connector is located on the system board and includes power pin(s) and an interrupt signal pin connected to the interrupt input. A peripheral device expansion card system is coupled to the computing system through system expansion bus connector and includes a system power reporting device coupled to the power pin(s) to receive power from the computing system via the power pin(s), and a card controller device coupled to the system power reporting device and to the interrupt signal pin. The card controller device determines, using the system power reporting device, a power state of the computing system. The card controller device also sends, to the system controller device through the interrupt signal pin, an interrupt signal that the system controller device interprets as a hot plug event.

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