Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.p.

Karthigan Srinivasan

Minh H Nguyen

Joseph P Miller

Christian H Post

John D Nguyen

Ho M Lai

Edgar Hance

Orville H Orr

A first slot connector is mounted within a housing of an electronic system and is for connecting to a first plug-in card. A mezzanine board is installed within the housing. A second slot connector is mounted on the mezzanine board for connecting to a second plug-in card. The first and second plug-in cards align with similarly-shaped slot access panels in the electronic system.

Mounting slot connector on mezzanine board in electronic system

A system comprises a bridge, a slot coupled to the bridge, and a power control unit coupled to the slot via a common power rail and coupled to the bridge. An add-in card having one of a plurality of types can be installed in the slot. Upon installing the add-in card, the bridge determines the type of add-in card and asserts a logic signal to the power control unit. Based on the logic signal, the power control unit provides one of a plurality of direct current ('DC') voltages on the common power rail to the slot.

Power control unit that provides one of a plurality of voltages on a common power rail

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Houston, TX, United States of America

Karthigan Srinivasan