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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 23, 2002
Filed:
Mar. 30, 2000
Jason Mills, Waterloo, CA;
Bradley Siim, Waterloo, CA;
Cisco Systems Canada Co., Nova Scotia, CA;
Abstract
The current invention is a backplane of an industrial computer that comprises two or more modular backplane segments that each comprise front loading slots for the insertion of Peripheral Boards. The modular backplane segments also comprise slots on the back side for the insertion of rear mounting boards. Each modular backplane segment comprise a PCI compliant bus. The buses of the modular backplanes are bridged by a bridging module that attaches to the back side of the backplane segments being bridged. The power for the backplane is provided by one or more power supply backplane segments each accepting one or more power supply modules. The modular backplane of the current invention allows the number of slots of the backplane to be determined by the user. Further, by attaching the bridging modules to the back side of the backplane the maximum number of slots for the insertion of boards is available on the front side.