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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 26, 2006
Filed:
Oct. 03, 2003
Yossi Cohen, Laguna Niguel, CA (US);
Kenneth MA, Cupertino, CA (US);
Yossi Cohen, Laguna Niguel, CA (US);
Kenneth Ma, Cupertino, CA (US);
Broadcom Corporation, Irvine, CA (US);
Abstract
One or more methods and systems of providing a conditioned power source to an external card that is communicatively connected to a host computing device by way of an external card adaptor are presented. The system and method facilitates the use of an external card having a connector that is incompatible with a PC card connector provided by the host computing device. In one or more embodiments, the external card adaptor performs power conditioning and/or voltage conversions of one or more power signal inputs provided by the host computing device. The power conditioning is performed using a power conditioning circuitry while the voltage conversions are performed using a voltage conversion circuitry.