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Backplane vs Podule - What's the difference?

backplane | podule |

As nouns the difference between backplane and podule

is that backplane is a circuit board that connects several connectors in parallel to each other, so that each pin of each connector is linked to the same relative pin of all the other connectors, forming a computer bus while podule is an expansion mechanism for ARM-based computer systems, generally a Eurocard-compatible printed circuit board that plugs into a backplane inside the machine.

backplane

English

(wikipedia backplane)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (electronics) A circuit board that connects several connectors in parallel to each other, so that each pin of each connector is linked to the same relative pin of all the other connectors, forming a computer bus.

    • podule

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (computing, dated) An expansion mechanism for ARM-based computer systems, generally a -compatible printed circuit board that plugs into a backplane inside the machine.
  • * 1989 , Science Software (volume 5, page 231)
    • The Archimedes version of the Chromalock is a plug-in podule .
  • * 1990 , Electronics World + Wireless World
    • Acorn's Springboard is a PC card with an Arm chip, either 1Mbyte or 4Mbyte of ram and a 32-bit podule bus. The result is a simple and cheap multiprocessor system on a PC base

    Usage notes

    * Associated with (Acorn Computers).