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The A15 is an advanced PowerPC based single-board computer for embedded applications. It features full VME64 support and it can be used as a master or a slave in a VMEbus environment. The A15 provides 1MB local dual-ported SRAM for slave access and communication between the local CPU and another VMEbus master. The A15 comes with the MPC8245 PowerPC with 400MHz clock frequency and local 32-bit/33MHz PCI data bus. It is a complete state-of-the-art SBC offering DRAM, Flash and CompactFlash memory, dual Fast Ethernet, four COMs, USB, IDE and keyboard/mouse interfaces as well as an optional on-board hard disk. A software-loadable FPGA is available for individual user-defined functions such as additional UARTs, a CAN bus interface, DSP functions etc. In addition, the A15a can be equipped with PC-MIP mezzanine cards supporting both front I/O and rear I/O. PC-MIP is the format of choice for all types of workstation I/O such as graphics, Ethernet or additional serial lines. The modular combination of I/O functionality on a single-board computer allows to build up tailored control systems which appear as customized solutions based on standard components. Depending on the kind of I/O requirements, further standard versions of A15 are available for other mezzanine standards. The A15 single-board computer is partly compatible with the MVME2100 board by Motorola.