Patent ID: 11868301
Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 13:
14. A method, comprising:
configuring a computer system to enable simultaneous communication between each of a plurality of processor devices attached to a motherboard and an endpoint device providing a plurality of emulated Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe) endpoint devices accessible using respective separate sets of nonshared endpoint serial channels, wherein the configuring comprises:
coupling each of the plurality of processor devices to respective serial links of a plurality of serial links on the motherboard, wherein the motherboard comprises an individual motherboard serial link interface and a plurality of symmetrical sets of motherboard serial channels coupling at least a portion of the motherboard serial link interface to each respective serial link of the plurality of serial links, such that the coupled plurality of processor devices are each communicatively coupled to the motherboard serial link interface via the plurality of symmetrical sets of motherboard serial channels; and
communicatively coupling the endpoint device to the motherboard serial link interface, such that a serial link is established between each processor device of the plurality of processor devices of the motherboard and a respective emulated PCIe endpoint device of the emulated PCIe endpoint devices via respective different ones of the separate sets of nonshared endpoint serial channels, each corresponding to a different one of the respective emulated PCIe endpoint devices of the endpoint device, at least the motherboard serial link interface and symmetrical limited selections of the plurality of symmetrical sets of motherboard serial channels.