Unknown Computer Hardware

[BabaBakChodiWale]

Hello guys,

 

Here i have some piece of hardware i cannot find any thing about apparently its form either russia or china because there is absolutely no branding no name on IHS provessor of the card 

 

I only know this is some kind of TPU this is also not confirmed as its told by my senior at Work

 

And this is to be used in some samiconductor or PCB manufacturing. 

 

If any one of you have a slightest what this thing is and how can i test it. That will be good.

 

 

[Lenovich]

It's an FPGA/ASIC developer board—a physical emulator for various devices. To identify the exact model, could you take a close-up photo of the main chip under the heatsink?

[BabaBakChodiWale]

Hello thanks for the information that was much needed 

 

I tried pop the heat sink and check but it has nothing written on the chip 

 

I'll still share you the image

[porina]

Those ram chips with d9xqh on them seem to be DDR4 16Gb (2GB). So 20GB in total!

 

Edit: if you're willing to risk it, plug it into a desktop and find it in Device Manager. Look up the Vendor and Device ID numbers it reports as and that could give a clue where to look.

[spacepickle]

It looks sort of similar to this:

I know this isn’t the exact product but it might have some information you can use. 

https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/PCIE-3-0-8-FPGA-Development_60752714249.html?mark=google_shopping&seo=1

[Kilrah]

Given the lack of "real" markings on the chip and the presence of plenty of debug ports that are unpopulated I'd guess it's a pretty late prototype board for a custom IC.

I.e. "company went bust before they could finish their product" kind of situation, i.e. that board probably cost millions to make but is entirely worthless to anyone. 

[BabaBakChodiWale]

Finally some thing i found. Taking help from gpt i got it to be a 

 

PCI\VEN_2805&DEV_0006&SUBSYS_00062805&REV_08

 

GPT says its 

 

VEN_2805 = CNEX Labs 

 

CNEX computational storage / NVMe accelerator development card.

[Kisai]

1 hour ago, BabaBakChodiWale said:

Finally some thing i found. Taking help from gpt i got it to be a 

 

PCI\VEN_2805&DEV_0006&SUBSYS_00062805&REV_08

 

GPT says its 

 

VEN_2805 = CNEX Labs 

 

CNEX computational storage / NVMe accelerator development card.

Based on what happens when I search it, one of two things shows up

https://www.starwindsoftware.com/security/sw-20250507-0002/

The other thing that shows up is a document from IBM about virtual storage. However I'm unable to figure out how it found that. In both cases, some kind of "storage" thing shows up.

 

Given that the Vendor ID does not show up anywhere, that's likely a FPGA board. FPGA's can pretty much say anything. For example my video capture card on my other PC, is actually a FPGA board and is either identified as YUAN or Micomsoft. The drivers are the same. I don't have anything that can reprogram it.

 

IGNORE what the stupid AI's give. You're barking up the wrong tree and they will not find it.

 

Part of the problem of identifying obscure things is figuring out what part is missing to actually identify it. Seeing as there is a USB-C port, and a non-existing ethernet port, my guess is that this is the interface card for another device. Seeing that it's in a server device, was there another device attached to this?

 

[Kilrah]

1 hour ago, BabaBakChodiWale said:

GPT says its 

 

VEN_2805 = CNEX Labs 

If you go to the actual PCI SIG website and search for vendor 2805 it doesn't exist.

https://pcisig.com/membership/member-companies

 

One more point towards prototype and they chose something that wasn't used as placeholder.

If it was them they seem to have been working on SSD controllers and disappeared from the face of the earth a few years ago

[BabaBakChodiWale]

1 hour ago, Kisai said:

Based on what happens when I search it, one of two things shows up

https://www.starwindsoftware.com/security/sw-20250507-0002/

The other thing that shows up is a document from IBM about virtual storage. However I'm unable to figure out how it found that. In both cases, some kind of "storage" thing shows up.

 

Given that the Vendor ID does not show up anywhere, that's likely a FPGA board. FPGA's can pretty much say anything. For example my video capture card on my other PC, is actually a FPGA board and is either identified as YUAN or Micomsoft. The drivers are the same. I don't have anything that can reprogram it.

 

IGNORE what the stupid AI's give. You're barking up the wrong tree and they will not find it.

 

Part of the problem of identifying obscure things is figuring out what part is missing to actually identify it. Seeing as there is a USB-C port, and a non-existing ethernet port, my guess is that this is the interface card for another device. Seeing that it's in a server device, was there another device attached to this?

 

 

This didn't came attached with the server. 

 

I put it there to find out what is it. My company senior leadership brought this from somewhere they only the ceo know and he didn't known what it is so the task fell on my head to find out whats this nature of the alienated object. 

 

These guys only know its some kind of thing which is used for designing and making PCB or Semiconductors.

[BabaBakChodiWale]

51 minutes ago, Kilrah said:

If you go to the actual PCI SIG website and search for vendor 2805 it doesn't exist.

https://pcisig.com/membership/member-companies

 

One more point towards prototype and they chose something that wasn't used as placeholder.

If it was them they seem to have been working on SSD controllers and disappeared from the face of the earth a few years ago

So are you implying that this card is indeed something from CNEX Labs ?? and they could not finish it gone out of business?

[Echothedolpin]

1 hour ago, BabaBakChodiWale said:

 

This didn't came attached with the server. 

 

I put it there to find out what is it. My company senior leadership brought this from somewhere they only the ceo know and he didn't known what it is so the task fell on my head to find out whats this nature of the alienated object. 

 

These guys only know its some kind of thing which is used for designing and making PCB or Semiconductors.

Might be wise to determine the original owner before trying to figure out what it is, could be major legal implications for your organization, especially if your senior leadership obtained it but won’t provide details.

 

 

[BabaBakChodiWale]

34 minutes ago, Echothedolpin said:

Might be wise to determine the original owner before trying to figure out what it is, could be major legal implications for your organization, especially if your senior leadership obtained it but won’t provide details.

 

 

I have already asked them to contact OEM