SDIO card development system
AssigneeC-Guys, Inc.
InventorsPing Huei Tai, Katsuhiro Hirayama
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Abstract
An SDIO card development supporting system for development of SDIO cards, an SDIO controller reference board, and a method for running the system are disclosed. The SDIO card development supporting system includes: (a) a hardware component comprising: (i) a platform equipped with an operating system and a memory operably connected to the operating system; (ii) an SD host board including an SDIO host device; and (iii) an SD bus operably connecting the operating system of the platform to the SD host board; and (b) a software component stored in the memory of the platform, wherein the software component comprises an SDIO test program that runs on the operating system of the platform.
Claims20
An SDIO card development supporting system for development of SDIO cards, the system comprising:
- (a) a hardware component comprising:
- (i) a platform having an operating system and a memory operably connected to the operating system;
- (ii) an SD host board including an SDIO host device;
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- (iii) an SD bus operably connecting the operating system of the platform to the SD host board;
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- (b) a software component stored in the memory of the platform, wherein the software component comprises an SDIO test program that runs on the operating system of the platform.
An SDIO controller reference board equipped with an SDIO port operably connectable to an SDIO host device via an SD bus, the reference board comprising:
- (a) a substrate;
- (b) an SDIO controller disposed on the substrate and having a plurality of application interfaces;
- (c) a quartz oscillator operably connected to the SDIO controller;
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- (d) a plurality of application interface ports operably connected to the SDIO controller.
A method of operating an SDIO card development supporting system, wherein the system comprises an SD integrated development environment software program operating on a computer platform and the computer platform comprises a memory storing the software program and a SDIO host device, the method comprising the steps of:
- (a) starting the SDIO card development supporting system using the software program and optionally checking a work environment;
- (b) launching one or more engines of the software program;
- (c) initializing the system using the software program when an SDIO card unit having an SDIO controller is inserted into an SDIO slot of the computer platform so as to operably connect the SDIO controller to the SDIO host device;
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- (d) generating an SDIO command using the software program in order to test the operable connection between the SDIO host device and the SDIO controller.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.