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Industrial backplanes are circuit boards that contain sockets or expansion slots for connections to other circuit boards. There are two types of industrial backplanes: active and passive.

Active backplanes contain bus control and motherboard circuitry; however, they do not contain processor complex components such as the central processing unit (CPU), chipset, or cache.

Passive backplanes contain circuitry for bus connectors and, in some cases, buses and drivers.

Buses are devices that transmit data from one part of a computer to another. Drivers interface hardware devices to an operating system or other software. Both active and passive industrial backplanes may also include bridges that interface two buses of the same type or of different types.