Patent ID: 9742409
Date: 2017-08-22
CPC Classifications: G06F,H03K,H05K

Claim:
1. A subsea electronics module for use in a subsea well installation, said subsea electronics module comprising: a backplane connecting a plurality of slots; a plurality of physical cards each supporting an electronic assembly having an identical architecture including a programmable logic module and a memory, the physical cards each being inserted into a respective slot of the backplane; wherein the identical electronic assembly of each physical card is configured by program instructions stored in the memory thereon to be configured to perform in use a set of electronic functions of one of a plurality of different defined card roles in dependence on either one or both of: the position of the slot into which that card is inserted; an indication of a card role configuration selection for that card; and wherein the indication of a card role configuration selection for that card is set at the time of deployment of the subsea electronics module.