As shown in Figure 9-6, the TCA9511A is used in a backplane connection. The TCA9511A is placed on the I/O peripheral card and connects the I²C devices on the card to the backplane safely upon a hot insertion event. Note that if the I/O cards were plugged directly into the backplane, all of the backplane and card capacitances would add directly together, making rise time and fall time requirements difficult to meet. Placing a bus buffer on the edge of each card; however, isolates the card capacitance from the backplane. For a given I/O card, the TCA9511A drives the capacitance of everything on the card and the backplane must drive only the capacitance of the bus buffer, which is less than 10 pF, the connector, trace, and all additional cards on the backplane.

Figure 9-6 Backplane Application Schematic