{"id":6533,"date":"2022-01-25T06:14:32","date_gmt":"2022-01-25T14:14:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.missinglinkelectronics.com\/?p=6533"},"modified":"2024-06-19T02:12:50","modified_gmt":"2024-06-19T09:12:50","slug":"stop-wobbling-around-a-salute-from-the-mle-embedded-lab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missinglinkelectronics.com\/devzone\/fpga-devtips\/stop-wobbling-around-a-salute-from-the-mle-embedded-lab\/","title":{"rendered":"Stop Wobbling Around &#8211; A Salute From The MLE Embedded Lab"},"content":{"rendered":"Stop Wobbling Around &#8211; A Salute From The MLE Embedded Lab Our Mission: If It Is Packets, We Make It Go Faster &#8211; today, how to properly mount those large FPGA-based PCIe Cards \u2026 theory and practice! Everyone working with evaluation hardware knows the struggles: On its own it works, but when you assemble an entire setup you have many loosely or weakly connected parts. This easily can damage a part or much worse, you spend an entire day debugging.&nbsp; To overcome this issue, MLE sometimes gets creative and designs additional carriers to securely mount extension cards or additional hardware.&nbsp; As a small example, the following images show a 3D Model of how we securely mount additional Hardware to the Xilinx ZCU102:&nbsp;&nbsp; SD-Mux, which we use to swap SD-Card images PCIe Card Here&#8217;s the theory: The stabilizations for PCIe and SD-Mux are 3D printed by our engineers (yes they have some neat toys at home). This helps MLE to have a clean stable lab setup. In this case we tested a SAS 12G storage controller on the Xilinx ZCU102.&nbsp;&nbsp; And the first prototype looks like this: If you want to enhance your Lab as well, we give you a kickstart. You can find our printable 3D Models at thingiverse: PCIe Carrier:&nbsp;https:\/\/www.thingiverse.com\/thing:5164348 SDMux<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.missinglinkelectronics.com\/devzone\/fpga-devtips\/stop-wobbling-around-a-salute-from-the-mle-embedded-lab\/\" class=\"themebutton\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stop Wobbling Around &#8211; A Salute From The MLE Embedded Lab Our Mission: If It Is Packets, We Make It Go Faster &#8211; today, how to properly mount those large FPGA-based PCIe Cards \u2026 theory and practice! Everyone working with evaluation hardware knows the struggles: On its own it works, but when you assemble an<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.missinglinkelectronics.com\/devzone\/fpga-devtips\/stop-wobbling-around-a-salute-from-the-mle-embedded-lab\/\" class=\"themebutton\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":6911,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":"[]"},"categories":[98,111],"tags":[85,94,95,96],"class_list":["post-6533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fpga-devtips","category-lab-setups","tag-amd-xilinx-zcu102","tag-fpga-based-pcie-card-mounting","tag-pcie-carrier","tag-sd-mux"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Stop Wobbling Around \u2013 A Salute From The MLE Embedded Lab<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"For a more reliable connectivity, MLE invented additional carrier designs to securely mount large FPGA-based PCIe Cards, extension cards or additional hardware.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/devzone.missinglinkelectronics.com\/fpga-devtips\/stop-wobbling-around-a-salute-from-the-mle-embedded-lab\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Stop Wobbling Around \u2013 A Salute From The MLE Embedded Lab\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"For a more reliable connectivity, MLE invented additional carrier designs to securely mount large FPGA-based PCIe Cards, extension cards or additional hardware.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/devzone.missinglinkelectronics.com\/fpga-devtips\/stop-wobbling-around-a-salute-from-the-mle-embedded-lab\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"MLE Developer Zone\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-01-25T14:14:32+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-06-19T09:12:50+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Anna Schreiber\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Anna Schreiber\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"TechArticle\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/devzone.missinglinkelectronics.com\\\/fpga-devtips\\\/stop-wobbling-around-a-salute-from-the-mle-embedded-lab\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/devzone.missinglinkelectronics.com\\\/fpga-devtips\\\/stop-wobbling-around-a-salute-from-the-mle-embedded-lab\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Anna Schreiber\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/devzone.missinglinkelectronics.com\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/3a5fb3e900ec94113fa75dbc15d91bfe\"},\"headline\":\"Stop Wobbling Around &#8211; 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