Patent ID: 6964574

Claim:
A daughter board for a prototyping system, said daughter board comprising: a first surface for facing a mother board of the prototyping system and a second surface opposed thereto; a connector for a corresponding socket of the mother board, the connector being arranged on the first surface of the daughter board and including a plurality of elements, each of the elements including an insulating support and a plurality of leads; and a plurality of contacts for corresponding functional terminals of a programmable device, the contacts being arranged on the second surface of the daughter board, each of the contacts being connected to a corresponding lead of the connector, wherein the elements of the connector are arranged along the edges of a regular polygon, each element of the connector includes a first and a second sub-set of leads connected to corresponding contacts for input/output terminals and control terminals of the programmable device, the contacts for control terminals of each sector being arranged around a center of a corresponding edge of a regular polygonal area, and the first sub-set and the second sub-set are arranged starting from a first free end and from a second free end, respectively, of each element of the connector.