Patent ID: 7225357

Claim:
An SDIO card development supporting system for development of SDIO cards, the system comprising: (a) a hardware component comprising: (i) a platform having an operating system and a memory operably connected to the operating system; (ii) an SD host board including an SDIO host device; (iii) a first bus operably connecting the operating system of the platform to the SD host board; and (iv) an SDIO controller reference board equipped with an SDIO port operably connectable to the SDIO host device via a SD bus; and (b) a software component stored in the memory of the platform, wherein the software component comprises an SDIO test program that runs on the operating system of the platform, wherein the reference board comprises (i) a substrate; (ii) an SDIO controller disposed on the substrate and equipped with a plurality of application interfaces; (iii) a quartz oscillator operably connected to the SDIO controller; and (iv) a plurality of application interface ports operably connected to the SDIO controller, wherein the SDIO controller further comprises a host interface module that operably connects the SDIO controller to the SD bus when the SDIO port is operably connected to the SDIO host device, and wherein the plurality of application interfaces includes a HS-UART interface and a PCMCIA interface, and the plurality of application interface ports includes a HS-UART connector and a PCMCIA connector, wherein the HS-UART interface is operably connected to the HS-UART connector and the PCMCIA interface is operably connected to the PCMCIA connector.