New VME board suits range of industries

Concurrent Technologies Plc has announced the launch of Rhea, a further addition to its VME range of embedded processor boards.

Coinciding with the launch of Intel’s latest Atom processor, the company has released the Rhea VME SBC to harness this latest technology for customers seeking a simple and cost-effective upgrade.

VME is a standard that has existed for many years and has been widely deployed in various industrial, research, semiconductor process control, transport, medical and defence applications worldwide. While no longer the cutting edge of technology, it continues to be a widely installed architecture, particularly in the defence market and many organisations have designed their platforms around this standard. Being able to upgrade their computing capability while remaining within the VME environment is crucial to time and cost efficiency. Customers can remove existing boards and plug a new one into the exact same slot.

By continuing to support the VME standard, the company is responding to the needs of its customers, and extending the revenue generating lifecycle of a VME product family.

Rhea offers a wide range of input and output interfaces which are needed for its target applications. It also allows customers to benefit from the latest security features: presenting a valuable upgrade path for them at a time when up to date VME computer boards are increasingly difficult to source from major vendors.