Designer and manufacturer of Advanced computing solutions for embedded applications

Concurrent Technologies PLC is a British company founded in 1985 and based in Colchester (United Kingdom). The group also has an international presence, notably in California, USA, to support its activities in strategic markets such as defence and aerospace.

Concurrent designs and manufactures a wide range of solutions, including: embedded processor boards (SBCs – Single Board Computers), high-performance VPX/OpenVPX modules, architectures compliant with the SOSA (Sensor Open Systems Architecture) standard, complete rugged systems, and expansion, storage and interconnection solutions.

As a distributor of Concurrent products in France, we offer below a carefully selected range of solutions designed to meet the requirements of your most critical projects.

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KRATOS

Kratos is a VPX rugged, compute-intensive Plug-In Card designed in accordance with the SOSA(™) Technical Standard. It integrates a 20-core processor, a high-capacity memory subsystem, onboard storage, and full support for virtualization

Magni - rugged 3U VPX Plug In Card (PIC)

Magni is a rugged 3U VPX Plug In Card (PIC) based on
the 13th Gen Intel® CoreTM Processor for Crypto, Storage
and Acceleration needs.

FULLA

Air-Cooled/Rugged Conduction-Cooled 3U VPX 10G Ethernet Switch

EIR

Eir is a 3U VPX board based on 16-core Intel® Core Ultra (Series 3) Processor to provide enhanced processing performance with higher performance memory, support for
varying power inputs and flexible PCIe connections for additional I/O.

Caelus

Air-cooled/Rugged Conduction-cooled VME board based on 16-core Intel® Core™ Ultra (Series 3) Processor

Concurrent VPX modules: computing, interconnect and real-time I/O

The VPX standard (VITA 46) is an evolution of modular embedded architectures designed to meet the requirements of systems with high computing density and high data throughput. It replaces legacy parallel buses (VME, CompactPCI) with point-to-point serial interconnects based on fabrics such as PCI Express (PCIe), Ethernet or Serial RapidIO, enabling significantly higher data rates whilst reducing latency and signal integrity issues.

VPX systems are structured around 3U or 6U boards inserted into a chassis with a backplane, where the interconnect topologies are defined by the OpenVPX standard (VITA 65). This standard formalises slot profiles, links (fat pipes, thin pipes) and the fabrics used, ensuring interoperability between modules from different suppliers.

In current architectures, VPX is frequently aligned with SOSA (Sensor Open Systems Architecture), which imposes additional constraints on interface standardisation, resource management and modularity, particularly for defence applications.

Concurrent Technologies develops VPX modules covering the critical functions of an embedded system, with a strong focus on data-intensive and real-time architectures. The single-board computers (SBCs) incorporate Intel multi-core CPUs (Core, Xeon, Core Ultra) with configurations supporting up to several dozen threads, combined with:

High-bandwidth DDR4/DDR5 memory
On-board storage (NVMe) connected via PCIe
Multi-gigabit network interfaces (1/10/25 GbE)
PCIe Gen3/Gen4 lanes exposed to the backplane for expansion

These modules are designed to support workloads such as virtualisation (VT-x, VT-d), resource partitioning and the execution of mission-critical applications under Linux, Windows or VxWorks.

In addition, infrastructure modules (VPX Ethernet switches, I/O cards) ensure the distribution of data flows within the system, with L2/L3 switching capabilities and deterministic management of internal communications.