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General Description

2 General Description

2.1 Introduction

Flexible MiniPCI to PCI Bus Adapter (Adapter) is designed to support expansion of modern

motherboards with limited numbers of PCI or PCI Express Connectors. Adapter converts the

standard MiniPCI motherboard slot into up-to two independent 32-bit PCI slots (placed on the

backplane).

It includes one MiniPCI Interface board (

Figure 1) and PCI Backplane (that include 2 32-bit PCI

slots) (

Figure 2). The MiniPCI Interface board has to be plugged into an upstream 126-pin

MiniPCI motherboard connector. PCI Backplane connects to the main Mini PCI Interface board

via 12” Flex PCI Express cable. The expansion 32-bit PCI add-in board has to be plugged into the

standard 32-bit PCI connectors on the PCI Backplane.

Because of the flexible nature of the connection (unlike traditional rigid risers), expansion PCI

add-in boards can be positioned away from the MiniPCI connector on the motherboard inside a

computer chassis.

PCI Backplane has four mounting holes allowing them to be securely fixed inside a computer

chassis.

Figure 1: MiniPCI Interface board

The Adapter functions right out of the box, no additional software needs to be installed. The Mini

PCI Interface board has LEDs for displaying downstream PCI express Link status as well as

expansion PCI Backplane “PRESENT” status.

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