Amfeltec MiniPCIe Adapter Product Family in Production

Amfeltec Corporation announced its MiniPCIe adapter product family is in production.

MiniPCIe to M.2 PCIe1 adapter

For many customers, this is an invaluable complement to the company’s Squid Carrier board product line.

Squid Carrier boards can expand a single PCIe slot to 6 or 8 MiniPCIe slots – in combination with firm’s adapters, user can leverage these carrier boards to mix and match your M.2 and MiniPCIe modules as needed. This combination gives flexibility for creating a multi-channel system with a variety of M.2 and/or MiniPCIe modules on the same carrier board.

Since 2015, PCIe M.2 modules have been gaining in popularity and even began replacing MiniPCIe modules. Unlike MiniPCIe modules, however, which have only one standard upstream host connector (its pinout and form-factor), M.2 modules can have different pinouts and form-factors; these are defined by host connector key position (e.g.: A-/E-/B-/M-key). These various form factors of M.2 host connectors were designed to support a multitude of interfaces and technologies (e.g.: Wi-Fi, NFC, WWAN, SSD), and to be exclusive to them; in part, this also prevents the user error of placing an incompatible M.2 module into a given system.

“Multi-channel applications require a carrier board that can support a combination of modules; for example, multiple M.2 and/or MiniPCIe,” says Michael Feldman, president and CTO, “At the same time, the variety of M.2 modules and all the possible combinations in multi-channel systems require that carrier board to be flexible when it comes to module support. To solve this problem, we created this family of MiniPCIe to M.2 adapters. While each of them can be used in a standalone fashion, out-of-the-box, they also very well complement our popular Squid PCIe Carrier Boards for MiniPCIe modules.“

Adapter family includes:

• SKU-089-10 MiniPCIe to M.2 (A, E-keys) Adapter
  (PCIe (slot 1) and USB 2.0 interfaces)

• SKU-089-11 MiniPCIe to M.2 (A, E-key) Adapter
  (PCIe (slot 2) and USB 2.0 interfaces)

• SKU-089-12 MiniPCIe to M.2 (B-key) Adapter
  (PCIe, SIM and USB 2.0 interfaces)

• SKU-089-15 MiniPCIe to M.2 (B-key) Adapter
  (USB 3.0, SIM and USB 2.0 interfaces)

• SKU-089-14 MiniPCIe to Type-A USB 3.x Adapter
  (USB 3.x and USB 2.0 interfaces)

• SKU-089-13 MiniPCIe 4 to 1 RF Splitter/Combiner