QorIQ LS1
Processor
Family
QorIQ LS1088A and LS1048A
Communications Processors
Enabling the intelligent edge with NXP’s next generation DPAA2 data path
architecture and ARM v8 64-bit processors.
TARGET APPLICATIONS
}} Intelligent edge access
}} NFV solutions
}} Wireless access point control
}} Virtual CPE
}} iNIC
The ARM® general-purpose processors and DPAA2 are
supported by a powerful software toolkit that provides a higher
level of hardware abstraction and makes software development
quick and simple. This combination balances ease-of-use with
high-performance processing in a Linux® environment that
is familiar to any software programmer. Customers can fully
exploit the underlying hardware and easily adapt to network
changes for real-time ‘soft’ control over the network.
}} Industrial
SOFTWARE TOOLKIT
OVERVIEW
The QorIQ LS10x8A family of multicore communications
processors combines up to eight ARM® Cortex®-A53 cores
with the advanced, high-performance datapath and network
peripheral interfaces required for wireless access points,
networking infrastructure and intelligent edge access,
including virtual customer premise equipment (vCPE), and
high-performance industrial applications.
The QorIQ LS10x8A processors include NXP’s secondgeneration datapath acceleration architecture (DPAA2).
DPAA2 provides the infrastructure required to support
simplified and secure networking interface and accelerator
sharing by multiple general-purpose CPU cores, while also
providing a range of powerful acceleration engines to
offload software running on the CPUs.
NXP has significant and increasing global investment in software
for the embedded marketplace. The NXP software development
kit (SDK) delivers foundational technologies (user space, fast
path, virtualization) that are continuously ‘upstreamed’ to
support the networking portfolio. With 13+ years experience
of commercial ARM software tooling, operating system
development and delivery, NXP continues to be a strong
QorlQ LS1088A PROCESSOR BLOCK DIAGRAM
ARM® Cortex®
A53 64-Bit Core
32 KB
D-Cache
UNPARALLELED INTEGRATION
32 KB
D-Cache
32 KB
D-Cache
1 MB L2 Cache
CoreLink CCI-400™ Coherency Fabric
TrustZone®
SMMUs
Power Management
IFC, QuadSPI, SPI
Buffering
WRIOP
Watchpoint
Cross
Trigger
Buffer
Queue /
Buffer
Manager
Security
Engine
(SEC)
Advanced
I/O
Processor
(AIOP)
4 x FlexTimer
2 x USB3.0 w/PHY
Core Complex
1G
1G
1G
1G
1G
1G
1G
1G
DPAA2 Hardware
1/10G
uQE
DMA
SATA 3.0
Real-Time Debug
PCIe 3.0
WRIOP
Management Complex
SD/SDIO/eMMC
4 x I2C, GPIO
64-Bit
DDR4
Memory Controller
1 MB L2 Cache
Secure Boot
2 x DUART
32 KB
D-Cache
PCIe 3.0
QorIQ LS10x8A processors integrate
up to two 10 Gbit/s and eight 1 Gbit/s
Ethernet interfaces with hardware
supported vSwitch capability for PCIe®
controllers (supporting SR-IOV) and
next-generation SATAIII and USB3
controllers. The next-generation datapath
is complemented with high-performance
acceleration, including security and trust,
pattern matching and data compression.
ARM Cortex
A53 64-Bit Core
PCIe 3.0
supporter of open source and industry
software consortia, including Linaro and
the Linux Foundation.
Perf.
Monitor
Trace
1/10G
4-Lane 10 GHz SerDes
4-Lane 10 GHz SerDes
Accelerators and Memory Control
Basic Peripherals, Interconnect and Debug
Networking Elements
NETWORKING PERFORMANCE
The QorIQ LS10x8A processors contain
an advanced I/O processor (AIOP) that
offloads the general-purpose ARM
Cortex-A53 cores with in-line or fully
autonomous networking functions,
involving complex look-ups, header
manipulations, and even encapsulations
and encryption.
The next-generation datapath also
provides proven acceleration such as
crypto acceleration and trust architecture,
to meet the ever-increasing demands for
network security and power efficiency.
COMPLETE ENABLEMENT,
RICH ECOSYSTEM
}} Functional datapath libraries that are
performance optimized
The QorIQ LS1 family includes a
comprehensive ecosystem to assure
that ease-of-use is first priority. The
complete offering includes:
}} NXP VortiQa software applications
that are bundled for quick networking
application deployment
}} APIs that are compliant with industry
standard consortiums, including Linaro
OpenDataPath (ODP).
}} Management software that takes care
of setup, initialization and teardown
of interfaces, accelerators and
networking functions
}} Tools (e.g., accelerators, debug)
to make sure you spend your time
creating value-added software
} Powerful combination of NXP and ARM
ecosystems for support
} Open-source software, available
upstream for all customers to leverage
QorIQ LS10X8A FAMILY FEATURES
LS1088A
LS1084A
LS1048A
LS1044A
QorIQ LS1088A FAMILY
COMPARISON CHART
Cortex A53 cores
up to 1.6 GHz
8
8
4
4
L2 cache (MB)
2
2
1
1
Advanced I/O
processor
YES
NO
YES
NO
vSwitch acceleration
YES
YES
YES
YES
Up to 8 cores built on
ARM Architecture
• 8 x Cortex-A53 CPUs, 64-bit, 1.6 GHz, clusters of four cores sharing
1 MB L2 cache
Hierarchical interconnect fabric
• Coherency fabric supporting coherent and non-coherent transactions with
prioritization and bandwidth allocation
DDR controllers
• One 64-bit DDR4 SDRAM memory controllers with ECC and interleaving
support, up to 2.1 GT/s
Accelerated packet processing
• Advanced I/O processor, up to 10 Gbit/s complex packet processing
• 10 Gbit/s SEC crypto acceleration
• Supports x 4, x 2, 3 x 1 PCIe® Gen 3 controllers
Express packet I/O
• SR-IOV support, root complex
• 1 x SATA 3.0, 2 x USB 3.0 with PHY
• Two TDM/HDLC interfaces
Network I/O
• Wire rate I/O processor, with HW parsing, classification, and policing, featuring:
Two 1/10 GbE + eight 1 G
vSwitch offload
XFI/KR, QSGMII, SGMII/KX, RGMII
MACSec on up to four 1 GbE
Virtualization
• Support for HW virtualization and partitioning enforcement
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