This back-plane is designed to accept five expansion cards, and to connect to a host system using a male Z50Bus connection on the right side. A pass-through connector is placed on the left side, allowing for daisy-chaining of multiple back-plane cards. This card is fully passive, so any buffering needs to be done on either the host system, or on the expansion cards.

This bus card is a perfect companion for an expanded LiNC80 SBC1 microcomputer system. Prototype expansion cards for the system can take advantage of our Z50Bus Prototype Card.

The Z50Bus is a suggestion for a system expansion bus for 8-bit microcomputers. It’s designed to be compact, yet compatible, taking inspiration from previous standard bus layouts, and bringing it into a modern age.

The back-plane PCB is 100mm wide, and has mounting holes along both sides, allowing for robust mounting with easy insertion and removal of expansion cards. The kit contains the PCB, 6 female 2x25 connectors and 1 male 2x25 straight connector