A very-high-density cable interconnect (VHDCI) is a 68-pin connector that was introduced in the SPI-2 document of

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-3. The VHDCI connector is a very small connector that allows placement of four wide SCSI connectors on the back of a single PCI card slot. Physically, it looks like a miniature Centronics type connector. It uses the regular 68-contact pin assignment. The male connector (plug) is used on the cable and the female connector ("receptacle") on the device.

Other uses

Apart from the standardized use with the SCSI interface, several vendors have also used VHDCI connectors for other types of interfaces: * Nvidia: for an external

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8-lane interconnect, and used in Quadro Plex VCS and in Quadro NVS 420 as
display port connector
* ATI Technologies: on the

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2400 to convey two DVI and two VGA signals on a single connector, and ganging two of these connectors side by side in order to allow the FireMV 2400 to be a low-profile quad display card. The

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Crossfire Edition also used a pair of the connectors to grant more inter-card bandwidth than the PCI Express bus allowed at the time for Crossfire. * AMD: Some Visiontek variants of the Radeon HD 7750 use a VHDCI connector alongside a Mini DisplayPort to allow a 5 (breakout to 4 HDMI+1 mDP) display Eyefinity array on a low profile card. VisionTek also released a similar Radeon HD 5570, though it lacked a Mini DisplayPort. * Juniper Networks: for their 12- and 48-port 100Base-TX PICs (physical interface cards). The cable connects to the VHDCI connector on the PIC on one end, via an

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connector on the other end, to an RJ-45 patch panel. * Cisco: 3750 StackWise stacking cables * National Instruments: on their high-speed digital I/O card

* AudioScience uses VHDCI to carry multiple analog balanced audio and digital AES/EBU audio streams, and clock and GPIO signals.

References

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Other uses

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