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PCMCIA (PC Card) bus connector pinout

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The PCMCIA (Personal Computer Memory Card International Association) 16 bit bus connector

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16-bit bus defined by PCMCIA.

PCMCIA Cards have 68 pin assignments, and interface with both 8- and 16-bit buses. They also support physical access of up to 64 MB of memory. PCMCIA cards give you universal expansion capability for mobile computers, and can support a variety of functions including wireline and radio-based fax and modem capabilities, mass storage, and memory extension for host machines.

There are three types of PCMCIA slots, identified by the thickness of the card that fits in them. All types are backward compatible.

Type I Cards are 3.3 mm thick. They"re used primarily in Personal Digital Assistants (PDAS) and handheld devices as RAM, FLASH memory, electrically erasable programmable read-only memory (EEPROM), and one-time programmable memory (OTP).

Type II Cards are 5 mm thick and are fully 1/0-capable. You can use them for memory enhancements or for 1/0 features in modems, LAN connections, and host communications.

Type III Cards measure 10.5 mm thick. They"re designed primarily for removable hard drives and radio communication devices which require a larger size. They can also be used for memory enhancements.

Miniature Cards are 3.5mm thick

The implementation of PCMCIA (PC Card) is based on the 8/16 bit data ISA bus (24-bit address bus)

Pin Memory I/O+Mem Description
1 GND GND Ground
2 D3 D3 Data 3
3 D4 D4 Data 4
4 D5 D5 Data 5
5 D6 D6 Data 6
6 D7 D7 Data 7
7 CE1# CE1#
8 A10 A10 Address 10
9 OE# OE# Output Enable
10 A11 A11 Address 11
11 A9 A9 Address 9
12 A8 A8 Address 8
13 A13 A13 Address 13
14 A14 A14 Address 14
15 WE# WE# Write Enable ???
16 READY IREQ#
17 Vcc Vcc Vcc
18 Vpp1 Vpp1 Vpp1
19 A16 A16 Address 16
20 A15 A15 Address 15
21 A12 A12 Address 12
22 A7 A7 Address 7
23 A6 A6 Address 6
24 A5 A5 Address 5
25 A4 A4 Address 4
26 A3 A3 Address 3
27 A2 A2 Address 2
28 A1 A1 Address 1
29 A0 A0 Address 0
30 D0 D0 Data 0
31 D1 D1 Data 1
32 D2 D2 Data 2
33 WP IOIS16#
34 GND GND Ground
35 GND GND Ground
36 CD1# CD1# Card Detect 1
37 D11 D11 Data 11
38 D12 D12 Data 12
39 D13 D13 Data 13
40 D14 D14 Data 14
41 D15 D15 Data 15
42 CE2# CE2#
43 VS1# VS1#
44 RSRVD IORD# Reserved / IORD#
45 RSRVD IOWR# Reserved / IOWR#
46 A17 A17 Address 17
47 A18 A18 Address 18
48 A19 A19 Address 19
49 A20 A20 Address 20
50 A21 A21 Address 21
51 Vcc Vcc Vcc
52 Vpp2 Vpp2 Vpp2
53 A22 A22 Address 22
54 A23 A23 Address 23
55 A24 A24 Address 24
56 A25 A25 Address 25
57 VS2# VS2#
58 RESET RESET Reset
59 WAIT# WAIT#
60 RSRVD INPACK# Reserved / ???
61 REG# REG#
62 BVD2 SPKR# Battery Voltage 2 / Speaker ???
63 BVD1 STSCHG# Battery Voltage 1 / ???
64 D8 D8 Data 8
65 D9 D9 Data 9
66 D10 D10 Data 10
67 CD2# CD2#
68 GND GND Ground

Another representation (look into card):

Mem I/O+Mem     Mem I/O+Mem
GND --- 1 35 --- GND
D3 <-> 2 36 --> !CD1
D4 <-> 3 37 <-> D11
D5 <-> 4 38 <-> D12
D6 <-> 5 39 <-> D13
D7 <-> 6 40 <-> D14
!CE1 - 7 41 <-> D15
A10 --> 8 42 <-- !CE2
!OE --> 9 43 - !VS1
A11 --> 10 44 <-- RSRVD !IORD
A9 --> 11 45 <-- RSRVD !IOWR
A8 --> 12 46 <-- A17
A13 --> 13 47 <-- A18
A14 --> 14 48 <-- A19
!WE --> 15 49 <-- A20
READY !IREQ --> 16 50 <-- A21
Vcc --> 17 51 <-- Vcc
Vpp1 --> 18 52 <-- Vpp2
A16 --> 19 53 <-- A22
A15 --> 20 54 <-- A23
A12 --> 21 55 <-- A24
A7 --> 22 56 <-- A25
A6 --> 23 57 - !VS2
A5 --> 24 58 <-- RESET
A4 --> 25 59 --> !WAIT
A3 --> 26 60 - RSRVD !INPACK
A2 --> 27 61 - !REG
A1 --> 28 62 --> BVD2 !SPKR
A0 --> 29 63 - BVD1 !STSCHG
D0 <-> 30 64 <-> D8
D1 <-> 31 65 <-> D9
D2 <-> 32 66 <-> D10
WP !IOIS16 --> 33 67 --> !CD2
GND --- 34 68 --- GND

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Source(s): PC Card Standard at PC Card"s homepage, from Hardware Book
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