Yeah, sorry about this. Turns out they got packaged without the metal PCIe bracket and thermal pad, so now they are being re-packed. I appreciate that the delay won’t be welcome, but better to be able to secure the adapter inside your PC and have good thermal coupling between it and the SDR!
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They should work, with one caveat:
The MiniPCIe standard provides for a single lane of PCIe only, while LimeSDR XTRX has two lanes. Therefore it follows that, unless you use a custom baseboard or adapter, you will only have access to a single lane of PCIe. Which will be fine for many requirements, but there will also be those which need the higher throughput provided by 2x lanes of PCIe.
I have this one working with my XTRX:
You have to be careful with the keying, I bought some others that didn’t work.
I’ll find some time to try and make a 2 lane adapter, shouldn’t be all that hard.
You can now buy one off the shelf:
Which also includes convenient JTAG access.
Thanks for the link - I’m looking for MiniPCIe to M.2, not full size PCIe. Rubikssolver4 was asking for something similar.
Ah, apologies.
Is the January 25th ship date accurate still for the full PCIe carrier boards?