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== Types of Crate Systems ==

There are (atfour least) fourmain types of modular crate electronic systems used on particle physics experiments.

==== NIM ====

The earliest and simplest crate module standard are is[[Nuclear Instrumentation Module|NIM (Nuclear Instrumentation Module) modules]] modules. A NIM crate only has power on the backplane, there is no data bus or data connectors. The NIM backplane connector is an irregular arrangement of individual pins into sockets. NIM modules typically have multiple single electronic components on the front with both inputs and outputs on the front panel. A typical NIM module might be, say, four discriminators on the front panel, or three AND gates. NIM modules can be [[hot swap|hot swapped]], since there are no data connectors at the back.

==== CAMAC ====