1. Ava Specification Updates
Clark Shao Feb. 2018

2. 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 

3. 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

4. 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

5. Thank You!