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.

(1997-03-10)