These modems would often slot into a Mini PCI-e slot in the netbook motherboard. [delokaver] figured out how to use these 3G cards over USB instead. It’s actually a fairly straightforward hack.

This showed that the Raspberry Pi would happily talk with a VL805-based USB 3.0 PCIe expansion card, as well as a Realtek RTL8111-based Ethernet card, but not a number of other PCIe cards.

Ltd. (“Truechip”), the Verification IP specialist and Terminus Circuits, a leading provider of High Speed Serial (HSS) Link IP products announced partnership for PCIe Gen4 and USB 3.1 verification.