Athena IV is the fourth generation in the Athena family of rugged, wide-temperature PC/104 SBCs with Integrated data acquisition, extending back to the original Athena in 2004. Athena IV is an excellent choice for:

Customers using previous generations of Athena seeking to extend the lifetime of their existing product;
Customers seeking to replace an obsolete PC/104 SBC with a newer generation one to extend their existing product’s lifetime; or
Customers seeking to build a PC/104 system expected to have a long lifetime.

Maintaining a legacy for long life applications
Each generation of Athena maintained the same physical shape and most of the I/O connectors and features of the previous generations, while updating key features to stay current with the state of the art. In this way the Athena platform has maintained a low-impact migration path for customers with extended product lifecycles that outstrip the lifetimes of the CPU. Many customers have been able to maintain their products for up to 16 years as a result.