Bus FET Switch Solutions for Live Insertion Applications

In today?s competitive computing and networking industry, any equipment downtime due to component interconnects or bus failures impedes communication, hinders productivity and hampers financial growth. In recognizing this increasingly costly unplanned downtime, the industry introduced live-insertion technology to minimize the impact of any such failures. The live-insertion feature enables a network administrator to replace a failed unit without powering down the system, thereby maintaining high-availability solutions. This application report discuses the Texas Instruments bus-switch solutions for live-insertion technology. The following TI products are used as examples: SN74CBT6800A, SN74CBTLV16800, SN74CBTS6800, and SN74CBTK6800.