CN210804412U - Expansion network card and server applied by same - Google Patents

Abstract

The utility model provides an expansion network card and server of using thereof, expansion network card includes: the circuit board is connected with an U.2 interface which outputs PCIE signals, and the PCIE signals are read from the U.2 interface; the network chip is arranged on the circuit board and used for converting the read PCIE signals into network signals in a preset format; and the at least one expansion interface is connected with the network chip and used for outputting the network signal in the preset format. The utility model discloses in, utilize the current U.2 interface to do the expansion design of network card, utilize the position design expansion network card of original HDD SSD dish to make the network chip on the expansion network card establish PCIE with the mainboard through the U.2 interface and be connected, finally realize the extension of net gape.

Description

Expansion network card and server applied by same

Technical Field

The utility model relates to a IT hardware equipment technical field especially relates to server and network card extension technical field.

Background

In the data center, the expansion network cards are connected to form a large local area network, and machine room management personnel can uniformly configure and manage the expansion network cards.

For the same server product, different customers have different customized requirements, some need to connect more hard disks, some need to connect more network interfaces, and the requirements for the network interfaces are different, such as optical network interfaces, electric network interfaces, and the like. At present, the expansion of the network port is basically an expansion design made by a traditional PCIE expansion slot, the flexibility of a system is not strong, and hot plugging can not be realized.

SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL

In view of the above-mentioned defects of the prior art, an object of the present invention is to provide an expansion network card and a server using the same for providing a new network card interface expansion mode.

In order to realize above-mentioned purpose and other relevant purpose, the utility model provides an expansion network card, expansion network card includes: the circuit board is connected with an U.2 interface which outputs PCIE signals, and the PCIE signals are read from the U.2 interface; the network chip is arranged on the circuit board and used for converting the read PCIE signals into network signals in a preset format; and the at least one expansion interface is connected with the network chip and used for outputting the network signal in the preset format.

In an embodiment of the present invention, the circuit board is connected to a plug terminal matched with the U.2 interface.

In an embodiment of the present invention, the network chip converts the PCIE signal into a plurality of network signals in a plurality of preset formats, and the plurality of network signals are output through a plurality of different expansion interfaces.

In an embodiment of the present invention, the expansion interface includes an optical module interface.

In an embodiment of the present invention, the expansion interface includes at least two optical module interfaces with different rates.

In an embodiment of the present invention, the expansion interface includes an electrical module interface.

In an embodiment of the present invention, the expansion interface includes at least two electrical module interfaces with different rates.

The embodiment of the utility model provides a server is still provided, the server has at least one U.2 interface, each U.2 interface grafting is as above expansion network card.

As described above, the utility model discloses an expansion network card and server of using thereof has following beneficial effect:

the utility model discloses in, utilize the current U.2 interface to do the expansion design of network card, utilize the position design expansion network card of original HDD SSD dish to make the network chip on the expansion network card establish PCIE with the mainboard through the U.2 interface and be connected, finally realize the extension of net gape.

Drawings

Fig. 1 is a schematic structural diagram of an expansion network card according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Fig. 2 is a schematic diagram of signal transmission of the expansion network card according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Fig. 3 is a schematic diagram of a server according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Fig. 4 and 5 are schematic diagrams illustrating an overall structure of the expansion network card according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Description of the element reference numerals

1 Server

100 expansion network card

110 circuit board

120 network chip

130 expansion interface

140 tray

200 U.2 interface

Detailed Description

The following description of the embodiments of the present invention is provided for illustrative purposes, and other advantages and effects of the present invention will be readily apparent to those skilled in the art from the disclosure herein. The present invention can also be implemented or applied through other different specific embodiments, and various details in the present specification can be modified or changed based on different viewpoints and applications without departing from the spirit of the present invention.

Please refer to fig. 1 to 5. It should be understood that the structure, ratio, size and the like shown in the drawings attached to the present specification are only used for matching with the content disclosed in the specification, so as to be known and read by those skilled in the art, and are not used for limiting the limit conditions that the present invention can be implemented, so that the present invention has no technical essential meaning, and any structure modification, ratio relationship change or size adjustment should still fall within the scope that the technical content disclosed in the present invention can cover without affecting the function that the present invention can produce and the purpose that the present invention can achieve. Meanwhile, the terms such as "upper", "lower", "left", "right", "middle" and "one" used in the present specification are for convenience of description, and are not intended to limit the scope of the present invention, and changes or adjustments of the relative relationship thereof may be made without substantial technical changes, and the present invention is also regarded as the scope of the present invention.

An object of the embodiment of the utility model is to provide an expansion network card and server of using for a new network card interface expansion mode is provided.

In the currently known network card design, the extension of the interface is basically an extension design made through a traditional PCIE extension slot, and the application of the method based on the U.2 interface extension interface in this embodiment can increase the flexibility of the server system, develop different network solutions according to different customer requirements without changing the architecture of the server system, and save the cost of system revision at the same time.

The principle and implementation of the expansion network card and the server applied thereto of the present embodiment will be described in detail below, so that those skilled in the art can understand the expansion network card and the server applied thereto without creative work.

As shown in fig. 1, the present embodiment provides an expansion network card 100, where the expansion network card 100 includes: circuit board 110, network chip 120, and at least one expansion interface 130.

In this embodiment, the circuit board 110 is connected to an U.2 interface 200 outputting PCIE signals, and reads the PCIE signals from the U.2 interface 200.

U.2 is an interface standard made for 2.5 inch HDD or SSD, conforming to SFF-8639 specification, and U.2 interface 200 is default for HDD or SSD in server 1 to expand the capacity of the hard disk. U.2 interface 200 includes 2 SATA 6Gbps interfaces and a mini SATA interface with 4pin pins, one of which interfaces connects to a PCI-E line. This allows U.2 interface 200 to support PCI-E3.0 x4 lanes, so U.2 interface 200 itself can output PCIE signals. In this embodiment, the U.2 interface 200 is utilized to output PCIE signals, and the circuit board 110 of the expansion card 100 is connected to the U.2 interface 200, so as to read PCIE signals from the U.2 interface 200.

In this embodiment, the circuit board 110 is connected to a plug terminal matching the U.2 interface 200.

Specifically, the expansion network card 100 of this embodiment has a male plug end that matches the U.2 interface 200, and when the expansion network card 100 is inserted into a motherboard, the male plug end may be inserted into the U.2 interface 200 on the motherboard to be connected to the U.2 interface 200, so as to obtain a required PCIE signal from the U.2 interface 200.

The hot plug of the expansion network card 100 of the embodiment can be realized outside the motherboard through the plugging terminal, so that the connection and the use of the expansion network card 100 are more flexible.

In this embodiment, the network chip 120 is mounted on the circuit board 110 and configured to convert the read PCIE signal into a network signal in a preset format.

The network chip 120 on the expansion card 100 can establish a PCIE signal communication connection with the motherboard through the U.2 interface 200. Through the network chip 120 in this embodiment, PCIE signals read from the U.2 interface 200 may be converted into network signals in different formats, and then output through different interfaces, which may be electrical interfaces with different rate specifications or optical interfaces.

The format conversion of the PCIE signal may adopt a signal conversion method in the prior art, and convert the PCIE signal into a required signal format according to the function and the signal requirement of the expansion interface 130.

In this embodiment, the network chip 120 converts the PCIE signal into a plurality of network signals in a plurality of preset formats, and the plurality of network signals are output through a plurality of different expansion interfaces 130.

In this embodiment, the expansion interface 130 is connected to the network chip 120, and is configured to output the network signal in the preset format.

In the present embodiment, the expansion interface 130 is, but not limited to, an optical module interface or an electrical module interface.

Specifically, in this embodiment, the extension interface 130 includes an optical module interface, or the extension interface 130 includes at least two optical module interfaces with different rates. Either the expansion interface 130 includes one electrical module interface or the expansion interface 130 includes at least two electrical module interfaces of different rates.

For example, in the present embodiment, the expansion interface 130 includes at least two optical module interfaces with different rates.

As shown in fig. 2, the signal flow of this embodiment is as follows:

the expansion network card 100 is connected to the U.2 interface 200 through a plug, reads a PCIE signal from the U.2 interface 200, converts the PCIE signal into network signals of different formats through the network chip 120, and outputs the network signals through different expansion interfaces 130, which may be electrical module interfaces of different speed specifications or optical module interfaces, etc., so as to meet the customized interface requirements of more customers.

In addition, as shown in fig. 4 and 5, the expansion network card 100 further includes a heat dissipation module configured on the circuit board 110 to dissipate heat of the network chip 120, a fool-proof structure when the expansion network card 100 is installed in the chassis of the server 1, and some peripheral structures. And will not be described in detail herein.

The embodiment also provides a server 1, as shown in fig. 3 to fig. 5, the server 1 has at least one U.2 interface 200, and the U.2 interfaces 200 are plugged into the expansion card 100. The U.2 interface 200 and the expansion network card 100 may form an expansion module, and the server 1 may include a plurality of expansion modules, such as the expansion module 1 to the expansion module N shown in fig. 3, where N is a positive integer greater than or equal to 2.

Therefore, the server 1 in this embodiment uses the existing U.2 interface to make an expansion design of the network card, uses the position of the original HDD/SSD disk to design the expansion network card 100, and establishes PCIE connection between the network chip 120 on the expansion network card 100 and the motherboard through the U.2 interface 200, thereby finally realizing expansion of the network port.

Furthermore, in order to highlight the innovative part of the present invention, the technical features that are not too closely related to the solution of the technical problem proposed by the present invention are not introduced in the present embodiment, but this does not indicate that there are no other structural and functional features in the present embodiment.

It should be noted that the drawings provided in the present embodiment are only for illustrating the basic idea of the present invention in a schematic manner, and the drawings only show the components related to the present invention rather than being drawn according to the number, shape and size of the components in actual implementation, and the form, quantity and proportion of each component in actual implementation can be changed at will, and the layout of the components may be more complicated.

To sum up, the utility model discloses in, utilize current U.2 interface to do the expansion design of network card, utilize the position design expansion network card of original HDD SSD dish to make the network chip on the expansion network card establish PCIE's with the mainboard connection through the U.2 interface, finally realize the extension of net gape. Therefore, the utility model effectively overcomes various defects in the prior art and has high industrial utilization value.

The above embodiments are merely illustrative of the principles and effects of the present invention, and are not to be construed as limiting the invention. Modifications and variations can be made to the above-described embodiments by those skilled in the art without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention. Accordingly, it is intended that all equivalent modifications or changes which may be made by those skilled in the art without departing from the spirit and technical spirit of the present invention be covered by the claims of the present invention.

Claims (8)

1. An expansion network card, comprising:

the circuit board is connected with an U.2 interface which outputs PCIE signals, and the PCIE signals are read from the U.2 interface;

the network chip is arranged on the circuit board and used for converting the read PCIE signals into network signals in a preset format;

and the at least one expansion interface is connected with the network chip and used for outputting the network signal in the preset format.

2. The expansion network card of claim 1, wherein: the circuit board is connected with a plug-in end matched with the U.2 interface.

3. The expansion network card of claim 1, wherein: the network chip converts the PCIE signal into a plurality of network signals in a plurality of preset formats, and the network signals are output through a plurality of different expansion interfaces.

4. The expansion network card of claim 1, wherein: the expansion interface includes an optical module interface.

5. The expansion network card of claim 1, wherein: the extended interface includes at least two optical module interfaces of different rates.

6. The expansion network card of claim 1, 4 or 5, wherein: the expansion interface includes an electrical module interface.

7. The expansion network card of claim 1, 4 or 5, wherein: the expansion interface includes at least two electrical module interfaces of different rates.

8. A server, characterized by: the server has at least one U.2 interface, each U.2 interface plugging an expansion card of any one of claims 1 to 7.

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