Patent ID: 8782315

Claim:
An expansion card device for controlling a radio system comprising: a substrate; an expansion controller card interface connector on said substrate for insertion in a radio controller; an encryption Crypto Ignition Key (CIK) interface component on said substrate; a zeroize control component on said substrate; an Ethernet interface component on said substrate; an Ethernet magnetics component on said substrate, in communication with said Ethernet interface component; an Ethernet transceiver component on said substrate, interfaced with said Ethernet magnetics component; a server and interface microprocessor component on said substrate, in communication with said expansion card interface connector; a Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) on said substrate; a multiplexer on said FPGA; a multiplexer/expansion card interface connector interface component within said FPGA, in communication with said multiplexer and said server and interface microprocessor component; a zeroize control interface component within said FPGA in communication with said zeroize control component and said multiplexer; and a multiplexer/Ethernet interface component within said FPGA, in communication with said Ethernet transceiver component and said multiplexer.