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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 12, 2019
Filed:
Aug. 30, 2018
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Christian Markus Petersen, Golden, CO (US);
William Christie Arnold, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Hao Shen, Milpitas, CA (US);
Austin Joel Cousineau, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Abstract
A disclosed expansion card may include a printed circuit board and a hardware accelerator. The hardware accelerator may be disposed on the printed circuit board and may include application-specific hardware circuitry designed to perform a computing task. The hardware accelerator may offload a portion of the computing task from a central processing unit of a computing device by executing, via the application-specific hardware circuitry, the portion of the computing task. The expansion card may also include an edge connector, disposed on a connecting edge of the printed circuit board, that may couple the hardware accelerator to the central processing unit via a computing bus. The edge connector may also include a primary pinout and a secondary pinout that may each conform to a compact pinout specification that may be more compact than a pinout specification defined for the computing bus. Various other systems and methods are also disclosed.