DESIGN STRUCTURE FOR DYNAMICALLY ALLOCATING LANES TO A PLURALITY OF PCI EXPRESS CONNECTORS
First Claim
1. A design structure embodied in a machine readable storage medium for at least one of designing, manufacturing, and testing a design, the design structure comprising:
- an apparatus for dynamically allocating lanes to a plurality of PCI Express connectors, the apparatus comprising a computer processor, a computer memory operatively coupled to the computer processor, the computer memory having disposed within it computer program instructions capable of;
identifying whether a PCI Express device is installed into each PCI Express connector; and
assigning a portion of the lanes to each PCI Express connector having a PCI Express device installed into the PCI Express connector.
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Abstract
A design structure embodied in a machine readable storage medium for designing, manufacturing, and/or testing a design for dynamically allocating lanes to a plurality of PCI Express connectors is disclosed that include identifying whether a PCI Express device is installed into each PCI Express connector, and assigning a portion of the lanes to each PCI Express connector having a PCI Express device installed into the PCI Express connector. Dynamically allocating lanes to a plurality of PCI Express connectors may also include identifying a device type for each PCI Express device installed into the plurality of PCI Express connectors, creating allocation rules that specify the allocation of lanes to the plurality of PCI Express connectors, and receiving user allocation preferences that specify the allocation of lanes to the plurality of PCI Express connectors.
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1. A design structure embodied in a machine readable storage medium for at least one of designing, manufacturing, and testing a design, the design structure comprising:
an apparatus for dynamically allocating lanes to a plurality of PCI Express connectors, the apparatus comprising a computer processor, a computer memory operatively coupled to the computer processor, the computer memory having disposed within it computer program instructions capable of; identifying whether a PCI Express device is installed into each PCI Express connector; and assigning a portion of the lanes to each PCI Express connector having a PCI Express device installed into the PCI Express connector. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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