Patent ID: 8867216

Claim:
An apparatus comprising: a printed circuit board comprising: a pattern of electrical contacts on a first surface of the printed circuit board, the pattern comprising a first portion and a second portion, the first portion being operative to receive a first connector portion and the second portion being operative to receive a second connector portion, the first portion being compliant with a first communications link type and the first and second portions being jointly compliant with a second communications link type; first conductive traces coupled to the first portion and a first device footprint, the first conductive traces being selectively configurable according to a selected one of the first and second communications link types; and second conductive traces coupled to the second portion and the first device footprint; and a connector coupled to the pattern, the connector comprising a first connector portion and a second connector portion, the connector being capable of coupling, according to the first communications link type, the first connector portion to a first device having a first number of terminals and capable of coupling, according to the second communications link type, the first connector portion and the second connector portion to a second device having a second number of terminals, the first number of terminals being less than the second number of terminals.