Patent ID: 8868826

Claim:
An apparatus comprising: one or more memory devices coupled to a circuit board, the one or more memory devices configured according to a second memory technology; and a processor coupled to the circuit board and external to the one or more memory devices, the processor configured to: communicate a serial presence detect message indicating a rank of the one or more memory devices, the rank of the one or more memory devices corresponding to a memory capacity associated with the one or more memory devices; receive one or more messages conforming to a first memory technology; translate the one or more messages from the first memory technology to the second memory technology, wherein translating the one or more messages comprises blocking the one or more messages from the first memory technology and issuing one or more messages in the second memory technology; translate features associated with the one or more memory devices, wherein translating the features associated with the one or more memory devices comprises adjusting the drive strength associated with the one or more memory devices; select a first memory device of the one or more memory devices to store first data; select a second memory device of the one or more memory devices to store second data; and send the translated messages to the one or more memory devices.