Abstract: A continuity module for a memory channel for a computer system. The continuity module includes a connecting member for coupling the continuity module to a socket that is coupled to a motherboard. The continuity module also includes a printed circuit board, which is coupled to the connecting member. The printed circuit board includes a signal trace that is coupled to a capacitive load. In preferred embodiments, the capacitive load comprises a plurality of vias and/or stub traces, which are coupled to the signal trace.

Abstract: In an electronic system, an arithmetic device is provided between successive bus terminals or between successive modules, respectively, with an identification signal applied to a bus input that is routed from one bus terminal to the next bus terminal until the identification signal has passed through all bus terminals in order to identify the modules. The identification signal is subjected to an arithmetic operation and consequently changed in each arithmetic device before it is forwarded to the next bus terminal, wherein the “results of the operations” are used for identifying the individual bus terminals and the individual modules, respectively.