Versa Module Europa

Versa Module Europa

(hardware)
(VME) A flexible open-ended bus system which makes use of the Eurocard standard.

VME was introduced in 1981 by Motorola, Philips, Thompson, and Mostek. It was intended to be a flexible environment supporting a variety of computing intensive tasks, and has become a rather popular protocol in the computer industry. It is defined by the IEEE standard 1014-1987.
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