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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 16, 2003
Filed:
Jan. 03, 2001
Reinhold Hofer, Olching, DE;
Force Computers, Inc., Fremont, CA (US);
Abstract
In a computer comprising a plurality of plug-in cards and peripheral plug-in cards interconnected through a bus, plug-in places of the bus are designed as system plug-in places and peripheral plug-in places. A clock line is routed along respective clock jack contacts at the plug-in places and comprises an associated clock plug-in contact on a plug-in card. A universal plug-in card ( ) comprises a control plug-in contact ( ) which is capable of being connected with a control plug-in jack ( ) of the bus ( ) and activates a clock output signal of the plug-in card ( ) which may be supplied to the bus ( ) via the clock plug-in contact (C_LK ). The card ( ) is capable of working in a peripheral mode in which a clock plug-in contact (C_LK ) acts as a clock input.