Patent ID: 6351786
Filing Date: 2002-02-26
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
A VXI product plug-in comprising:a carrier housing having front and rear compartments, wherein said front compartment is further partitioned into upper and lower sub-compartments; a first set of module cards situated within the upper sub-compartment of the front compartment of the carrier housing; a second set of module cards situated within the lower sub-compartment of the front compartment of the carrier housing; at least one interfacing card situated within the rear compartment of the carrier housing for interfacing at least one of the module cards with a VXI bus; an internal backplane bus situated within the carrier housing and between the front and rear compartments, said internal backplane bus being coupled to said module cards and said interfacing card; and said plug-in being sized and dimensioned to occupy two adjacent standard slots of a standard VXI chassis.