Electronic data acquisition system having multi-level backplane architecture for interfacing a common host computer to non-specific target hardware through multiple PCI bridges

摘要

A backplane module adds a second level of PCI bridges to a single board computer to increase the number of slots controllable by a common host processor. This invention provides a configuration that supports common host control of sixteen PCI slots and an Ethernet interface, a universal system bus (USB) and a SCSI interface resident on the common host single board computer.