Patent ID: 8151009
Filing Date: 2012-04-03
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. An apparatus, comprising: a translator that communicates between a serial memory protocol within a printed circuit board (PCB) and a parallel memory protocol outside the PCB, said translator's communication between said serial memory protocol and said parallel memory protocol is performed through a serial connection external interface of said PCB; and a riser card comprising said translator, wherein said riser card removeably plugs into said serial connection external interface to communicatively interconnect, via said translator, said serial memory protocol and said parallel memory protocol of at least one parallel memory protocol card which is removeably plugged into said riser card; wherein the parallel memory protocol comprises a double data rate synchronous dynamic random access memory (DDR SDRAM) protocol outside the PCB, wherein said translator communicates through the serial connection external interface of the PCB between the serial memory protocol within the PCB and the DDR SDRAM protocol outside the PCB.