The Aten CV100KM PS/2 Keyboard and Mouse Emulator is designed to provide an inexpensive solution to common problems associated with KVM (keyboard, video, mouse), switches. It permanently cures damaging computer lock-up commonly found in those KVM switches that do not provide keyboard and mouse emulation. With those switches, the computers lose the keyboard and/or mouse when the focus switches to a different system. Because the CV100KM circuitry allows seamless and fail-safe hot plugging of the keyboard and mouse, you can hot swap the two peripherals among any number of computers at any time. The emulator works with just the keyboard or just the mouse.

Simply plug the emulator into the computers keyboard and mouse ports, and the CV100KM state-of-the-art microprocessor appears to the system as if there were an actual keyboard and mouse present. The computer boots and operates normally, with or without the presence of a real keyboard and mouse.