Elma Electronic offers two versions of the BKP3-CEN09-15.2.17-n Backplane: one with an expansion control plane and one without. Designed to VITA 65 design principles, the 9-slot OpenVPX backplane features a centralized routing topology. The switch slot is connected to slots 1, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9. Slots 1-3 are also connected on the data plane. The version with the expansion plane have those signals going across slots 6-9. Contiguous groups of slots can have their maskable reset pin joined via jumpers within a provided backplane header.