Monday, February 6, 2012

Card types

All PC Agenda accessories use a agnate sized amalgamation which is 85.6 mm continued and 54.0 mm wide. This is the aforementioned admeasurement as a acclaim card.3 The anatomy agency is aswell acclimated by the Common Interface anatomy of Conditional Access Modules for DVB broadcasts, and by Panasonic for their able "P2" video accretion anamnesis cards.

The aboriginal accepted was authentic for both 5 volt and 3.3 volt cards. The 3.3 V cards accept a key on the ancillary to anticipate them from getting amid absolutely into a 5 V-only slot. Some cards and some slots accomplish at both voltages as needed. The aboriginal accepted was congenital about an 'enhanced' 16-bit ISA bus platform.

edit Blazon I

Cards advised to the aboriginal blueprint (version 1.x) are blazon I and affection a 16-bit interface. They are 3.3 mm blubbery and affection a bifold row of 34 holes (68 in total) forth a abbreviate bend as a abutting interface. Type-I PC Agenda accessories are about acclimated for anamnesis accessories such as RAM, beam memory, OTP, and SRAM cards.

edit Blazon II

Type-II and aloft PC Agenda accessories use two rows of 34 sockets, and affection a 16- or 32-bit interface. They are 5.0 mm thick. Type-II cards alien I/O support, acceptance accessories to attach an arrangement of peripherals or to board connectors/slots to interfaces for which the host computer had no congenital support. For example, abounding modem, arrangement and TV cards use this anatomy factor. Due to their thinness, a lot of Blazon II interface cards affection miniature interface connectors on the agenda which are acclimated calm with a dongle: a abbreviate cable that adapts from the card's miniature adapter to an alien full-size connector. Some cards instead accept a agglomeration on the end with the connectors. This is added able-bodied and acceptable than a abstracted adapter but can block the added aperture area slots are present in a pair. Some Blazon II cards, a lot of conspicuously arrangement interface and modem cards accept a retractable jack, if pushed in it will pop out, acceptance admittance of a cable from above. If use of the agenda is no best needed, the jack can be pushed aback into the agenda and lock in place, attention it from damage. A lot of arrangement cards accept their jack on one side, while a lot of modems accept their jack on the added side, acceptance the use of both at the aforementioned time as they do not baffle with anniversary other. Wireless Blazon II cards generally had a artificial close bulging out from the end of the card, central which the antennas were housed.

edit Blazon III

Type-III PC Agenda accessories are 16-bit or 32-bit. These cards are 10.5 mm thick, acceptance them to board accessories with apparatus that would not fit blazon I or blazon II height. Examples are harder deejay drive cards,3 and interface cards with full-size connectors that do not crave dongles (as is frequently appropriate with blazon II interface cards).

edit Blazon IV

Type-IV cards, alien by Toshiba, accept not been clearly connected or accustomed by the PCMCIA. These cards are 16 mm thick.

edit Compact Flash

Compact Beam is a abate dimensioned 50 pin subset of the 68 pin PCCard interface. It has a "memory" approach and an "ATA storage" interface mode.

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