Patent ID: 8300417

Claim:
An apparatus for accommodating at least two different sized cards each having a different card height, the apparatus comprising: a card housing comprising at least one card slot having a card slot height, said card slot configurable to support a card on opposing sides thereof and being adaptable for inserting either of said at least two different sized cards, the at least two different sized cards comprising a first sized card being an Advanced Mezzanine Card (AMC) module and a second sized card being an Advanced Mezzanine Card plus (AMC+) module, said AMC+ module suitable for hosting on said AMC+ module a PCI Mezzanine Card (PMC) module and a Switched Mezzanine Card (XMC) module and having a modified faceplate to accept a front panel of the PMC module or the XMC module, wherein a height of the AMC+ module is greater than the height of the AMC module and said width of said AMC+ module is less than a width of a double AMC module and greater than a width of a single AMC module; and an adjustable card guide system for adapting said at least one card slot for insertion of one of the AMC module and AMC+ module, said adjustable card guide system including a card guide mounting plate positioned along a length of a location configured to receive a length of an inserted AMC module or AMC+ module that increases a height of the at least one card slot, a first card guide connectable to said card guide mounting plate along the length of the location configured to receive the length of an inserted AMC module or AMC+ module, said first card guide configured to conform the height of the AMC module to the height of the at least one card slot, and a second card guide connectable to said card guide mounting plate along the length of the location configured to receive the length of an inserted AMC module or AMC+ module, said second card guide configured to conform the height of the AMC+ module to the height of the at least one card slot.