The A11 is an industrial PowerPC single-board computer with scalable performance delivering up to 1160 MIPS. When equipped with the 603e, the A11 delivers excellent price-performance for cost-sensitive applications with a need for high computing power. The board can also be ordered with the 740 PowerPC CPU family for applications where maximum perfomance is required.
The A11 is a complete state-of-the-art computer board needing only one slot on the VMEbus. It offers fast Ethernet and Ultra2 SCSI controllers, a large amount of DRAM, Flash and CompactFlash memory. Four serial interfaces are provided - two of them default as COM3 and COM4, and the others as COM1 and COM2 directly at the front panel or via a transition module.
The A11 offers computer I/O flexibility by providing two slots for PC-MIP mezzanine modules, while still providing full front-panel connectivity. Both Type I and Type II PC-MIP modules can be used to equip the A11 with a full range of workstation and industrial I/O options. Graphics for VGA, additional Ethernet or SCSI for server or redundancy purposes, fieldbus interfaces for remote I/O control, and many others are available, depending on the application.
The A11 single-board computer is partly compatible with the MVME2300, MVME2400, MVME2600, MVME2700 and MVME5100 boards by Motorola, and offers I/O compatibility with many existing P2 transition modules from Motorola (MVME712M) and other vendors.