Power supply backplane provides a modular approach for the addition of plug-in, hot-swap power supplies. As a result there is no need to modify expensive backplanes to incorporate redundant power supplies or N+1 configurations. Multiple power supply backplanes may be bridged together for additional power supply requirements.
This backplanes routes AC or DC input to the power supply, which converts it to the necessary voltages for cPCI or VME and then routes those voltages to power lugs on the rear of the backplane. Power connections can then be easily made to existing backplanes.