A9 (MEN MIKRO)

The A9 CPU board combines workstation characteristics with embedded control capabilities and industrial requirements. The A9 with its 68040 (with MMU and FPU) plus a 68360 is a mid-range industrial workstation. It is hardware and software compatible with the A10 and B9L/B10, comprising a family of boards scalable in size and performance. Because of full compatibility between A9 and A10, a single processor family (and a single BSP) can be used many places in a system. Major SBC components are part of the design story: the powerful 32-bit processor(s), DRAM, SRAM and Flash memory, multiple serial and mass storage interfaces, graphics and Ethernet, making the A9 a fully functional VME CPU card. The other part, the many features often required for hard industrial applications, are also provided on the card: including PC-card carrier, CAN bus interface, timers, RTC, watchdog, temperature sensors, and DRAM parity. Four M-Modules providing flexible industrial I/O extension can be mounted on the same double Eurocard, and can be accessed without hitting the VMEbus. The A9 single-board computer is partly compatible with the MVME162 and MVME167 boards by Motorola.