A Universal Serial Bus (USB) Type-C and power delivery port with scalable power architecture is disclosed. In one aspect, at least two circuits for a USB port are consolidated into a single integrated circuit (IC). At least one of the at least two circuits is part of a Type-C port controller (TCPC) group of circuits including sensors associated with detecting whether a voltage and current are present at pins of a USB receptacle. At least the other one of the at least two circuits is selected from a battery-related group of circuits including a battery charging circuit, an over-voltage protection circuit, and a conditioning circuit. The more circuitry integrated into the single IC the more readily scalable the end product is for a multi-port device. Additional circuitry such as a light emitting diode (LED) driver may also be included in the single IC.

An electronic device with a connector supporting multiple connection standards includes the connector, a first multiplexer circuit, a processor and a controller. The connector includes a detection pin and at least one signal pin. The first multiplexer circuit is coupled to the at least one signal pin. The processor is coupled to the first multiplexer circuit. The controller monitors the detection pin. The first multiplexer circuit electrically connects the at least one signal pin to the controller. Upon detecting a hot-plug signal occurring at the detection pin, the controller issues a confirmation command via the first multiplexer circuit and the at least one signal pin to request a reply of a device signal. Upon receiving the device signal, the controller controls the first multiplexer circuit according to the device signal to electrically connect the at least one signal pin to the processor or the controller.

Embodiments presented herein provide for hot swappable connections to various storage devices. In one embodiment, a storage controller includes an interface operable to connect to at least one of a storage device and a midplane connected to a plurality of Non Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) storage devices. The storage controller also includes a processor operable to detect when the interface is connected to the mid-plane, to determine that the NVMe storage devices each have a x4 NVMe connection, and to communicate sideband signaling, including a reference clock, to the NVMe storage devices through the midplane via Inter-Integrated Circuit (I2C) upon determining that the NVMe storage devices each have a x4 NVMe connection.

A patient communication system having a medical sensing device operable to collect medical data, a network communication module operable to transmit the medical data onto a data network, a controller operable route the first medical sensing data to the network communication module, and a power source operable to provide power to the first medical sensing device, the controller, and the network communication module.

Systems, methods, and software are disclosed herein having enhanced modular carrier form factors. In an implementation, an apparatus includes a carrier insertable into a modular bay of a chassis assembly, and a network interface card (NIC). The apparatus includes an Ethernet network cable connector configured to carry Ethernet signaling of the NIC, and a device U.2 connector configured to carry host communications of the NIC and mate with a mating U.2 connector of the modular bay when the carrier is inserted into the chassis assembly.

A method of provisioning cards in a rack mount system, by selecting a desired configuration file from a library of configuration files, and copying the configuration file into a memory device. The memory device is inserted into the rack mount system and powered up. Whereupon the configuration file automatically and without any further user intervention provisions a card of the rack mount system.

A device receives an analog voltage signal over a single physical electrical connection. The analog voltage signal can be converted into a digital value which can then be correlated to (i) an indication of a connection state of the primary device, and (ii) information about another device (or set of devices) which is connected to the device.

An information handling system includes a memory, a remote access controller, and a host processor. The memory to store an extensible firmware interface (EFI) system resource table (ESRT) and an ESRT capsule. The remote access controller to detect an insertion of a hot-pluggable device into the information handling system, to retrieve firmware details for the hot-pluggable device, to create a firmware capsule payload based on the firmware details, and to store the firmware capsule payload in the memory. The host processor to operate in a pre-boot mode, and in an operating system runtime mode. The host processor, while in the operating system runtime, to retrieve the firmware capsule payload from the memory, to update a cached operating system ESRT based on the firmware capsule payload, to retrieve updated firmware for the hot-pluggable device, and to create the ESRT capsule based on the updated firmware.

One implementation of an NVMe storage system uses NVMe over Fabric (NVMf) SSDs. This implementation is built using off-the-shelf RDMA Network Interface Cards (RNIC) to connect the server to the network and then to the NVMf SSDs. The current document discloses a split implementation with the PCI Express/NVMe interface on an NVMe Initiator board plugged into a server and the Flash implemented on one or many network attached Flash (NVMf) devices.

A system includes processing circuitry and a memory connected to the processing circuitry. The memory is configured to store executable instructions that, when executed by the processing circuitry, cause the processing circuitry to startup a configuration parser module and an invoke worker module. To obtain a configuration file from a database where the configuration file specifies configuration information for constructing a pluggable event gate that includes a data adaptor for an online source, a data adaptor for an offline source, a data adaptor sink. To construct one or more event gates based on the configuration file. The configuration file further specifies one or more user-defined data sources and one or more user-defined data sinks. To create, responsive to a number of the user-defined data sources and a number of user-defined data sinks, multiprocessing workers located on one or more cores of a network and share data between the multiprocessing workers.