A12c (MEN MIKRO)

The A12 is a single-board computer for embedded applications based on the Kahlua II PowerPC. It can be used as a master or slave in a VMEbus environment or as a stand-alone card. The A12 provides up to 1MB local dual-ported SRAM for slave access and communication between the local CPU and another VMEbus master. The A12 comes with the MPC8245 PowerPC with 300MHz clock frequency and a local 32-bit/33-MHz PCI data bus. It is a complete state-of-the-art SBC offering DRAM, Flash and CompactFlash memory, dual Fast Ethernet, 4 COMs, USB, IDE and keyboard/mouse interfaces as well as an optional onboard hard disk. In addition, the A12c CPU board can be equipped with PMC mezzanine cards. PMCs may particularly be used for intelligent telecom I/O. 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 A12 are availabe for other mezzanine standards. The A12 single-board computer is partly compatible with the MVME2100 board by Motorola.