Electronic device having a flat, card-like casing enclosing components for a complete computer system

摘要

A thin and small computer system that can be used generally for control equipment or the like, includes a CPU chip, peripheral control chips, and other components mounted in the form of a bare chip, whereby a computer system having a so-called ISA architecture can be incorporated in an IC card-like casing. Computer system components are fixedly attached to a double-sided printed wiring board. One side of the printed wiring board includes the CPU chip, an IO subsystem chip and memories and the other side includes an image control circuit, memories and the peripheral control chips. A 236-pin connector is formed on a long side of this card-type computer, and is connected to a control bus and an IO bus of the card-type computer. The control bus and the IO bus are not located at opposed positions in the connector. A position of separating the buses from each other is off the center of the connector. Power lines or ground lines are provided at the separating positions in the connector, thus preventing occurrence of unnecessary electromagnetic radiation noise.