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How do PC Card and ExpressCard compare with other small form factor cards?

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How do PC Card and ExpressCard compare with other small form factor cards?

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(All dimensions in millimeters) PC Card* ExpressCard* Miniature Card* SmartMedia Card MulitMedia Card (SD Card) CF Length 85.6 75.0 33.0 45.0 32.0 36.0 Width 54.0 34.0 or 54.0 38.0 37.0 24.0 43.0 Height 3.3/5.0/10.5 5.0 3.5 0.76 1.4 3.3/5.0 Connector Pin/Socket Beam on Blade Elastomeric Surface Surface Pin/Socket Contacts 68 26 60 22 7 (9) 50 Interfaces Memory, I/O, CardBus PCI Express or USB 2.0 Memory (DRAM, Flash, ROM) Memory (Flash, ROM) Memory (Flash, ROM) Memory, I/O * Standard published by PCMCIA What are the pin definitions for the 16-bit and CardBus PC Card interfaces? Pin 16-Bit Memory 16-Bit I/O+Mem 32-Bit CardBus Pin 16-Bit Memory 16-Bit I/O+Mem 32-Bit CardBus 1 GND GND GND 35 GND GND GND 2 D3 D3 CAD0 36 CD1# CD1# CCD1# 3 D4 D4 CAD1 37 D11 D11 CAD2 4 D5 D5 CAD3 38 D12 D12 CAD4 5 D6 D6 CAD5 39 D13 D13 CAD6 6 D7 D7 CAD7 40 D14 D14 RSRVD 7 CE1# CE1# CCBE0# 41 D15 D15 CAD8 8 A10 A10 CAD9 42 CE2# CE2# CAD10 9 OE# OE# CAD11 43 VS1# VS1# CVS1 10 A11 A11 CAD12 44 RSRVD IORD# CAD13