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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 26, 2022
Filed:
Sep. 18, 2020
Dell Products, Lp, Round Rock, TX (US);
Dor Aharony, Newton, MA (US);
Stephen Strickland, Foxborough, MA (US);
Gary W. Smith, Cumberland, RI (US);
Dell Products, LP, Round Rock, TX (US);
Abstract
A non-volatile memory express (NVMe) based storage system may include a processor; an input/output (I/O) port operatively coupled to a data network; a drive interface board (DIB), including: a PCIe switch communicatively coupled to the processor to receive signals from the processor to a plurality of NVMe storage devices; and a source clock communicatively coupled to the PCIe switch; a connector communicatively coupling the DIB to relay clock signals to a plurality of NVMe drives at a drive mid-plane baseboard; the drive mid-plane baseboard communicatively coupled to the source clock, the drive mid-plane baseboard including: a clock distribution module to receive a source clock signal from the source clock, the clock distribution modules placed at the drive baseboard to distribute the clock signals to the plurality of NVMe storage devices.