Patent ID: 8694863

Claim:
An expandable high-speed memory card, comprising: a printed circuit board (PCB); interface circuitry mounted on the PCB and configured to allow the high-speed memory card to receive bits representing instructions, commands, and/or data from one or more external devices over one or more high-speed serial communication links; a plurality of memory devices mounted to the PCB, each memory device having a physical memory space on which memory operations are performed; and a controller mounted to the PCB and connected to the interface circuitry and the plurality of memory devices, the controller configured to control communication between the interface circuitry and each memory device to allow the memory operations to be performed; wherein the interface circuitry is connected to the controller by a plurality of high-speed serial communication lines, each high-speed serial communication line corresponding to one of the high-speed serial communication links; and wherein the controller is connected to the plurality of memory devices by a predefined number of parallel communication lines, the controller configured to convert the bits representing commands, instructions and/or data from the high-speed serial communication links from a serial format to a parallel format.