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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 09, 2003
Filed:
Apr. 28, 2000
Philippe Klein, La Gaude, FR;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A system for housing CompactPCI cards in a frame that does not meet a specified CompactPCI form factor (3U and 6U) is presented. Existing telecommunication frames have generally a larger depth that those required by the CompactPCI standard ( mm) and therefore the insertion of CompactPCI cards ( ) cannot be performed directly into the main backplane ( ) of the frames. An intermediate backplane ( ), or so-called CompactPCI backplane, comprising six CompactPCI connectors on a front side for allowing the insertion of up to six CompactPCI adapters ( ) (3U and/or 6U), and one doubled-headed CompactPCI connector ( ) on a back side being common to one of the six front side connectors ( ) for insertion of a System Card ( ), is connected to the main frame backplane ( ) using the System Card ( ). The System Card functions as a card extender between the CompactPCI adapters ( ) and the main backplane of the frame. The depth of the System Card ( ) will be such that the depth of CompactPCI cards ( ) plus the depth of the System Card ( ) spans the full depth of the frame ( ).