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US 9,286,255 B2Granted
Motherboard
AssigneeScienBiziP Consulting(Shenzhen)Co., Ltd.
InventorsChun-Sheng Chen, Jing Wang
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Abstract
A motherboard includes a platform controller hub (PCH) chip, a connector, and a switch chip. The PCH chip includes a first group of pins and a second group of pins. The switch chip is connected to either the first group of pins or the second group of pins according to a type of a card connected to the connector.
Claims2
A motherboard, comprising:
- a platform controller hub (PCH) chip comprising a first group of pins and a second group of pins;
- a connector comprising a predefined pin and a ground pin, and operable of being connected to either a mini peripheral component interconnect express (mini-PCIe) card or a mini serial advanced technology attachment (mSATA) card;
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- a switch chip comprising a first transmission group of pins, a second transmission group of pins, a third transmission group of pins, and an enable pin coupled to the predefined pin of the connector, wherein the first transmission group of pins are coupled to the first group of pins through a first bus, the second transmission group of pins are coupled to the second group of pins through a second bus, the third transmission group of pins are coupled to the third group of pins through a third bus;
- wherein when the connector is connected to the mSATA card, the switch chip enables the third transmission group of pins to be connected to the first transmission group of pins;
- when the connector is connected to the mini-PCIe card, the switch chip enables the third transmission group of pins to be connected to the second transmission group of pins.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.