PC Card product design and packaging considerations

As more and more new PC Card frame kits and I/O connector products become available, product developers will have a variety of choices when designing a PC Card product. The product can be a PC Card fax/modem, fax with a cellular phone connection, LAN, SGSI, fax/LAN combo or fax/modem/sound combo. While it is good to have design choices, it may take up a great deal of developers' time in sorting out what technologies are good for a particular design. In this paper, the latest packaging technologies and products are examined and the PC Card product design considerations are discussed to provide product developers with some time-saving findings. The discussions are divided into two main sections: the exploration of new PC Card packaging technologies, and PC Card design and packaging considerations.