Motherboard
AssigneesHONG FU JIN PRECISION INDUSTRY (ShenZhen) CO., LTD., Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
InventorsMeng-Zhou Liu, Wen-Wu Wu
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Abstract
A motherboard includes a first circuit board, a second circuit board, and wiring. The first circuit board includes at least a programmable chip, a programming interface, a first data interface, and at least one jumper corresponding to the programmable chip. The second circuit board includes a CPU (central processing unit), a RAM unit, and at least a second data interface corresponding to the programmable chip. The motherboard of the present disclosure concentrates programmable chips on the first circuit board, thereby providing a unified programming interface to enhance the convenience of programming multiple programmable chips.
Claims4
A motherboard comprising:
- a first circuit board comprising a plurality of programmable chips, a programming interface for receiving programming data, a first data interface, and a plurality of jumpers, wherein the number of the programmable chips is equal to the number of the jumpers, each programmable chip is connected to the programming interface through a corresponding jumper, each programmable chip is connected to the first data interface, and each jumper selectively connects or disconnects a corresponding programmable chip to or from the programming interface;
- a second circuit board comprising a CPU, a RAM unit, and a plurality of second data interfaces;
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- a wiring comprising a first connector disposed on one end and a plurality of second connectors disposed on the other end, wherein the number of the second data interfaces and the number of the second connectors are equal to the number of the programmable chips, the wiring is connected to the first data interface through the first connector, each second data interface is connected to the wiring through a corresponding second connector, the wiring enables the communication between each programmable chip and a corresponding second data interface.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.