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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 26, 1999
Filed:
May. 07, 1998
Charles S Meyer, Nevada City, CA (US);
NVision, Inc., Grass Valley, CA (US);
Abstract
An interconnection arrangement includes an input card, a signal distribution board having first and second opposite main faces, and an input connector having first and second releasably engageable parts with the first part of the input connector attached to the signal distribution board at the first main face thereof and the second part of the input connector attached to the input card. A bus driver circuit is mounted on the input card and has a signal input terminal for receiving an input signal to be distributed. The bus driver circuit includes first and second bus drivers. The first and second bus drivers each have an input connected to the signal input terminal of the bus driver circuit and they have separate respective outputs connected to first and second pins respectively of the second part of the input connector. A first signal distribution bus on the signal distribution board extends from a first pin of the first part of the input connector in a first direction and a second signal distribution bus on the signal distribution board extends from a second pin of the first part of the input connector in a second direction, opposite the first direction. The first and second pins of the first part of the input connector are connected to the first and second pins respectively of the second part of the input connector when the first and second parts of the input connector are engaged.