Patent ID: 8937966
Filing Date: 2015-01-20
Classification: G05B,G06F,H04L,H05K

Abstract:
1. A backplane system for industrial control comprising: an adapter base module having a first port, a second port, a switching node and a network adapter, the switching node coupled between the first port and the second port and in communication with the network adapter, the network adapter operable to communicate over a control network; and an I/O base module having a first port, a second port and a bus slot, the bus slot configured to releasably receive a function card having a switching node, wherein the I/O base module couples the first port and the second port to the switching node when the function card is installed in the bus slot, and the I/O base module couples the first port to the second port when the function card is absent from the bus slot; wherein the second port of the adapter base module is directly or indirectly coupled to the first port of the I/O base module, and the second port of the I/O base module is directly or indirectly coupled to the first port of the adapter base module to form a network ring of at least one switching node.