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backplane

[′bak‚plān]
(electronics)
A wiring board, usually constructed as a printed circuit, used in microcomputers and minicomputers to provide the required connections between logic, memory, input/output modules, and other printed circuit boards which plug into it at right angles.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

backplane

(hardware, electronics)
A printed circuit board with slots into which other cards are plugged.

A backplane,is typically just a connector and does not usually have many active components on it. This contrasts with a motherboard.

Designing a backplane.
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