Daughterboard

As Daughter card ( German: daughter card; daughter board or also called mezzanine board) are special expansion card or adapter called, the function of which is to extend an existing hardware peripherals in the " mother - daughter " principle. They are not to be confused with conventional plug-in, which act in its functioning as an independent unit.

An example of this would be special AGP Digital Display name ( ADD) cards. They serve one located on the motherboard onboard graphics chip, cost-effective to expand an extra monitor connection without having to fit an expensive graphics card with its own chipset. On these motherboards AGP slots are usually installed in this case, allow only the use of AGP daughter cards and are marked with "for flatpanel daughter cards or ADD cards only". The onboard GPU (mother) and ADD card ( daughter ) are now operated in the overall system as a common unit. Please note would be in this case that the ADD daughter card no performance advantages for the system sought, since they just bring only the components with it, which are installed on conventional graphics cards for the second monitor port.

Typical daughter cards

• ADD daughter card
• RAID daughter card
• 10/100 Base-T Ethernet daughter card
• CPU socket daughter card
• Bluetooth daughter card
• Modem daughter card
• AD / DA / DIO daughter card
• Communication daughter card (CDC )
• Server Management Daughter Card ( SMDC )
• Serial ATA connector daughter board
• Robotic daughter card
• Access Control List daughter card
• PCI daughter card