Ava Specification Updates Clark Shao Feb. 2018

FB Ava Highlights Ava is a M.2 carrier card that lets up to 4 x M.2's be installed in a single x16 PCIe slot using a full height half length PCIe AIC form factor as defined by PCIe CEM 3.0 spec. MP in Q4/17 

FB Ava Highlights Pass through PCIe TX/RX signals “Independent M.2 drives” I2C Mux to provide separate SMBus connection Clock buffer to provide separate clocks Load switches to provide power GPIO expander to assert PERST# GPIO expander to indicate issues via LEDs Each M.2 drives a separate LED

Specification v1.0 Updates from v0.3 Added M.2 connectors’ part numbers in table 5 Added FRUID information in table 3 and section 3.1 Added 8-layer stack-up details Changed hot-swap controller to be optional, table 2 Added thermal solution(TIM, copper pour, heatsink) in section 6.3/6.4 Updated mechanical to the MP version in section 6.2 Updated operating altitude from 1,000m to 2,000m Cleaned typos and formats

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