New 6U VME Processor Board Announced by Concurrent Technologies.

Concurrent Technologies, a designer and manufacturer of leading-edge computer products, systems and mission critical solutions used in high-performance markets by some of the world’s major OEMs, announces the launch of Rhea, a further addition to its VME range of embedded processor boards.

Coincident with the launch of Intel’s latest Atom x7000RE Series processor range (formerly known as Amston Lake), Concurrent Technologies has released the Rhea VME single board computer to harness this very latest technology for customers looking for a simple, cost-effective upgrade.

VME is a standard that has existed for many years and has been widely deployed in a range of industrial, research, semiconductor process control, transport, medical and defence applications worldwide. Whilst no longer the cutting edge of technology, VME 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 are able to remove their existing boards and plug a new one into the exact same slot.

By continuing to support the VME standard, Concurrent Technologies is responding to the needs of its customers, and extending the revenue generating lifecycle of a VME product family in which Concurrent has invested for more than 20 years.

Rhea is a low power consumption VME board with a wide spread of I/O interfaces that has been designed for long life-cycle applications.

A brilliant replacement for existing systems with the latest generation processor from Intel?, Concurrent Technologies continuing to provide an excellent VME option for customers with a long life span for their wide variety of needs.

Both 4-core and 2-core processor options allow for both performance and power optimization, in addition 16 GBytes DRAM with built in error correction allows for an increased memory integrity whilst ensuring precise data storage and enhancing reliability. Optional board solid state disk options are available as well.

Easy to access controls with an I/O interface including SATA, USB, Ethernet, graphics, GPIO, audio and serial supporting a wide variety of legacy connections by default for a wide variety of needs.

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