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Introduction
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1 Introduction
The A500-Platform is a small form factor embedded computer with a display or without. It is powered
by a Freescale i.MX515 CPU with 600MHz, and hence it is powerful enough for sophisticated
embedded applications. The i.MX515 is based on ARM Cortex-A8 Core.
It can run many commonly known operating systems (e.g. Linux, Windows-CE, VxWorks). Thus one
can migrate its existing software solutions easily.
1.1 Features
The
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PC-A500 is a flexible computer system. It consists of one CPU board and can be expanded
with a variety of IO expansion boards. The boards are stacked together and are inserted into a rail
mount housing. This allows flexible system building. So that users are able to build application specific
IO expansion boards.
Order-No.: Product Interfaces
SY-EPC-50001
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PC-A500/0
VGA, 2 x USB 2.0, 2 x 10/100Mbit/s Ethernet,
2 x RS232
SY-EPC-50000
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PC-A500/1
VGA, 2 x USB 2.0, 2 x 10/100Mbit/s Ethernet,
1 x RS232, 1 x CAN
SY-EPC-50002
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PC-A500/2
VGA, 2 x USB 2.0, 2 x 10/100Mbit/s Ethernet,
2 x CAN
SY-EPC-50005
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PC-A500/R3
VGA, 2 x USB 2.0, 2 x 10/100Mbit/s Ethernet,
3 x RS232, 1 x CAN
SY-EPC-50006
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PC-A500/1-IO
VGA, 2 x USB 2.0, 2 x 10/100Mbit/s Ethernet,
1 x RS232, 1 x CAN, 8 dig. IO (24VDC), 4 ana. input
(16bit res.), and 4 ana. outputs(16bit res)
Table 1: The different variations of
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PC-A500
The different variations of
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PC
-A500 are attained by the modular assembly. Basically there are two
types of modules. The first module is the CPU module with the listed features
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600MHz ARM Cortex-A8 CPU (i.MX515),
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256 MB DDR2-RAM,
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32kB instruction and data caches,
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Unified 256kB L2 cache
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NEON SIMD media accelerator
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Vector floating point co-processor
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2 MB FLASH (for boot loader),
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internal compact flash socket type I/II for “true-IDE mode” compatible CF cards,
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dual 10 / 100 MBit Ethernet Interface,
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dual USB 2.0 interface (480MBit/s),
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2 user programmable front panel LEDs,
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32 kB nvSRAM which does not require battery backup,
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battery buffered RTC,
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internal watchdog function,
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temperature monitoring,
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Video controller with OpenGL ES 2.0 and OpenVG 1.1 hardware accelerator,
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VGA display connector (15pin HD-DSUB ),
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Internal LVDS display interface,
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Internal expansion bus (iX-Bus) for connection with IO-boards and power supply.