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Dual Edge TPU Adapter to use it on a system with single PCIe port on m.2 A/B/E/M slot
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Question: is there any reason why the low profile PCIe x1 version wouldn't work with another device such as a Hailo-8L E-Key? #62

Open goatzillax opened 5 months ago

goatzillax commented 5 months ago

I'm just curious if this same hardware can work with other m.2 accelerators. Thanks!

magic-blue-smoke commented 5 months ago

Hi @goatzillax TLDR: It should work, but there's no reason doing so and you should expect performance drop

Some details: To my best knowledge, Hailo-8L is a single chip solution and has one PCIe port with two Gen3 lanes, rather than two PCIe ports with one Gen2 lane each we have from Coral Dual Edge E-key card. This means no PCIe switch IC is needed and passive PCIe adapter from your local store should work without issues. I'd personally prefer B+M key Hailo-8L card along with m.2 M-key to PCIe x4 passive card for NVMe drives. So, there's no need for PCIe switch, unless there's demand for dedicated multiple Hailo-8L card adapter board Have to add that recommendations above are result of three minutes research without any guarantee of compatibility

goatzillax commented 5 months ago

OK, thanks. This was mostly just a question of just "rolling with the equipment you already (might) have".