Mid-connect architecture with point-to-point connections for high speed data transfer

摘要

A mid-connect structure having on one side a first set of function cards in parallel with one another and having a plurality of mid-connect elements applied thereto, and having on the other side a second set of function cards in parallel with one another and having a plurality of mid-connect elements applied thereto. The first set of function cards are electrically coupled to the second set of function cards by connecting the mid-connect elements of the first set to corresponding mid-connect elements of the second set. The first set of function cards are oriented at an angle other than parallel relative to the second set of function cards, thereby allowing one or more function cards on one side to be electrically coupled to one or more function cards on the other side. Typically, this would be a perpendicular arrangement of the first set relative to the second set.