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The A10 is a complete industrial single-board real-time workstation. Major components on the board, such as the powerful 32-bit CPU, all types of memory, serial interfaces, mass storage interfaces, Ethernet, CAN bus, and graphics are located on a double Eurocard, achieving significant cost savings. On-board memory of up to 48MB DRAM, 8MB Flash, 2MB SRAM and 2MB EPROM is more than enough even for the most complex real-time applications. The A10 permits use of a very flexibleRISC CPU for handling all I/O on the board. This RISC CPU handles the Ethernet interface as well as all serial and parallel I/O without using the resources of the CISC CPU. All I/O is supported by DMA. The 32-bit graphics controller is optimized for industrial applications using flat panels. Every kind of LCD (including dual scan), EL or CRT display may be used with up to 1024 by 1280 pixels. On VGA resolution (640 by 480) it is possible to use a flat-panel display and a CRT monitor at the same time. Power management for the displays as well as generation of the programmable contrast voltage for LCD screens is included. In addition a touch-screen interface is on board for flat-panel applications. A resolution of up to 1000 by 1000 pixels can be implemented by means of an analog resistive touch sensor. For external mass storage devices, such as hard and floppy disks, an SCSI controller has been provided. The SCSI controller is also supported by DMA. For removable data storage media a PCMCIA slot is on board. Flash, SRAM or other memory cards may be used for loading application software, storing operational data etc. Programming of Flash cards is also supported. The A10 single-board computer is partly compatible with the MVME172 and MVME177 boards by Motorola.