PROGRAMMABLE CABLE ADAPTOR

摘要

A programmable cable adaptor including a housing (10) containing an internal circuit board (17) having a plurality of conductive traces (19), an input connector with multiple pins (12), and an output connector with multiple pins (14) or pin receiving sockets. On the circuit board, there is a card edge receptacle (16) with key-contacting pins (23), electrically connected to the conductive traces, arrayed along at least one side of the card edge receptacle. A "key" (18) with contacts (30) on both sides, which are coupled to another such contact on the opposite side of the key, is inserted into the card edge receptacle to selectively couple pairs of key-contacting pins.