SoC overview

	1. LS1043A
	2. LS1088A
	3. LS2080A
	4. LS1012A
	5. LS1046A
	6. LS2088A
	7. LS2081A
	8. LX2160A

LS1043A
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The LS1043A integrated multicore processor combines four ARM Cortex-A53
processor cores with datapath acceleration optimized for L2/3 packet
processing, single pass security offload and robust traffic management
and quality of service.

The LS1043A SoC includes the following function and features:
 - Four 64-bit ARM Cortex-A53 CPUs
 - 1 MB unified L2 Cache
 - One 32-bit DDR3L/DDR4 SDRAM memory controllers with ECC and interleaving
   support
 - Data Path Acceleration Architecture (DPAA) incorporating acceleration the
   the following functions:
   - Packet parsing, classification, and distribution (FMan)
   - Queue management for scheduling, packet sequencing, and congestion
     management (QMan)
   - Hardware buffer management for buffer allocation and de-allocation (BMan)
   - Cryptography acceleration (SEC)
 - Ethernet interfaces by FMan
   - Up to 1 x XFI supporting 10G interface
   - Up to 1 x QSGMII
   - Up to 4 x SGMII supporting 1000Mbps
   - Up to 2 x SGMII supporting 2500Mbps
   - Up to 2 x RGMII supporting 1000Mbps
 - High-speed peripheral interfaces
   - Three PCIe 2.0 controllers, one supporting x4 operation
   - One serial ATA (SATA 3.0) controllers
 - Additional peripheral interfaces
   - Three high-speed USB 3.0 controllers with integrated PHY
   - Enhanced secure digital host controller (eSDXC/eMMC)
   - Quad Serial Peripheral Interface (QSPI) Controller
   - Serial peripheral interface (SPI) controller
   - Four I2C controllers
   - Two DUARTs
   - Integrated flash controller supporting NAND and NOR flash
 - QorIQ platform's trust architecture 2.1

LS1088A
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The QorIQ LS1088A processor is built on the Layerscape
architecture combining eight ARM A53 processor cores
with advanced, high-performance datapath acceleration
and networks, peripheral interfaces required for
networking, wireless infrastructure, and general-purpose
embedded applications.

LS1088A is compliant with the Layerscape Chassis Generation 3.

Features summary:
 - 8 32-bit / 64-bit ARM v8 Cortex-A53 CPUs
 - Cores are in 2 cluster of 4-cores each
 - 1MB L2 - Cache per cluster
 - Cache coherent interconnect (CCI-400)
 - 1 64-bit DDR4 SDRAM memory controller with ECC
 - Data path acceleration architecture 2.0 (DPAA2)
 - 4-Lane 10GHz SerDes comprising of WRIOP
 - 4-Lane 10GHz SerDes comprising of PCI, SATA, uQE(TDM/HLDC/UART)
 - Ethernet interfaces: SGMIIs, RGMIIs, QSGMIIs, XFIs
 - QSPI, SPI, IFC2.0 supporting NAND, NOR flash
 - 3 PCIe3.0 , 1 SATA3.0, 2 USB3.0, 1 SDXC, 2 DUARTs etc
 - 2 DUARTs
 - 4 I2C, GPIO
 - Thermal monitor unit(TMU)
 - 4 Flextimers and 1 generic timer
 - Support for hardware virtualization and partitioning enforcement
 - QorIQ platform's trust architecture 3.0
 - Service processor (SP) provides pre-boot initialization and secure-boot
   capabilities

LS2080A
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The LS2080A integrated multicore processor combines eight ARM Cortex-A57
processor cores with high-performance data path acceleration logic and network
and peripheral bus interfaces required for networking, telecom/datacom,
wireless infrastructure, and mil/aerospace applications.

The LS2080A SoC includes the following function and features:

 - Eight 64-bit ARM Cortex-A57 CPUs
 - 1 MB platform cache with ECC
 - Two 64-bit DDR4 SDRAM memory controllers with ECC and interleaving support
 - One secondary 32-bit DDR4 SDRAM memory controller, intended for use by
  the AIOP
 - Data path acceleration architecture (DPAA2) incorporating acceleration for
 the following functions:
   - Packet parsing, classification, and distribution (WRIOP)
   - Queue and Hardware buffer management for scheduling, packet sequencing, and
     congestion management, buffer allocation and de-allocation (QBMan)
   - Cryptography acceleration (SEC) at up to 10 Gbps
   - RegEx pattern matching acceleration (PME) at up to 10 Gbps
   - Decompression/compression acceleration (DCE) at up to 20 Gbps
   - Accelerated I/O processing (AIOP) at up to 20 Gbps
   - QDMA engine
 - 16 SerDes lanes at up to 10.3125 GHz
 - Ethernet interfaces
   - Up to eight 10 Gbps Ethernet MACs
   - Up to eight 1 / 2.5 Gbps Ethernet MACs
 - High-speed peripheral interfaces
   - Four PCIe 3.0 controllers, one supporting SR-IOV
 - Additional peripheral interfaces
   - Two serial ATA (SATA 3.0) controllers
   - Two high-speed USB 3.0 controllers with integrated PHY
   - Enhanced secure digital host controller (eSDXC/eMMC)
   - Serial peripheral interface (SPI) controller
   - Quad Serial Peripheral Interface (QSPI) Controller
   - Four I2C controllers
   - Two DUARTs
   - Integrated flash controller (IFC 2.0) supporting NAND and NOR flash
 - Support for hardware virtualization and partitioning enforcement
 - QorIQ platform's trust architecture 3.0
 - Service processor (SP) provides pre-boot initialization and secure-boot
  capabilities

LS1012A
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The LS1012A features an advanced 64-bit ARM v8 Cortex-
A53 processor, with 32 KB of parity protected L1-I cache,
32 KB of ECC protected L1-D cache, as well as 256 KB of
ECC protected L2 cache.

The LS1012A SoC includes the following function and features:
 - One 64-bit ARM v8 Cortex-A53 core with the following capabilities:
 - ARM v8 cryptography extensions
 - One 16-bit DDR3L SDRAM memory controller, Up to 1.0 GT/s, Supports
    16-/8-bit operation (no ECC support)
 - ARM core-link CCI-400 cache coherent interconnect
 - Packet Forwarding Engine (PFE)
 - Cryptography acceleration (SEC)
 - Ethernet interfaces supported by PFE:
 - One Configurable x3 SerDes:
    Two Serdes PLLs supported for usage by any SerDes data lane
    Support for up to 6 GBaud operation
 - High-speed peripheral interfaces:
     - One PCI Express Gen2 controller, supporting x1 operation
     - One serial ATA (SATA Gen 3.0) controller
     - One USB 3.0/2.0 controller with integrated PHY
     - One USB 2.0 controller with ULPI interface. .
 - Additional peripheral interfaces:
    - One quad serial peripheral interface (QuadSPI) controller
    - One serial peripheral interface (SPI) controller
    - Two enhanced secure digital host controllers
    - Two I2C controllers
    - One 16550 compliant DUART (two UART interfaces)
    - Two general purpose IOs (GPIO)
    - Two FlexTimers
    - Five synchronous audio interfaces (SAI)
    - Pre-boot loader (PBL) provides pre-boot initialization and RCW loading
    - Single-source clocking solution enabling generation of core, platform,
    DDR, SerDes, and USB clocks from a single external crystal and internal
    crystaloscillator
    - Thermal monitor unit (TMU) with +/- 3C accuracy
    - Two WatchDog timers
    - ARM generic timer
 - QorIQ platform's trust architecture 2.1

LS1046A
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The LS1046A integrated multicore processor combines four ARM Cortex-A72
processor cores with datapath acceleration optimized for L2/3 packet
processing, single pass security offload and robust traffic management
and quality of service.

The LS1046A SoC includes the following function and features:
 - Four 64-bit ARM Cortex-A72 CPUs
 - 2 MB unified L2 Cache
 - One 64-bit DDR4 SDRAM memory controllers with ECC and interleaving
   support
 - Data Path Acceleration Architecture (DPAA) incorporating acceleration the
   the following functions:
   - Packet parsing, classification, and distribution (FMan)
   - Queue management for scheduling, packet sequencing, and congestion
     management (QMan)
   - Hardware buffer management for buffer allocation and de-allocation (BMan)
   - Cryptography acceleration (SEC)
 - Two Configurable x4 SerDes
   - Two PLLs per four-lane SerDes
   - Support for 10G operation
 - Ethernet interfaces by FMan
   - Up to 2 x XFI supporting 10G interface (MAC 9, 10)
   - Up to 1 x QSGMII (MAC 5, 6, 10, 1)
   - Up to 4 x SGMII supporting 1000Mbps (MAC 5, 6, 9, 10)
   - Up to 3 x SGMII supporting 2500Mbps (MAC 5, 9, 10)
   - Up to 2 x RGMII supporting 1000Mbps (MAC 3, 4)
 - High-speed peripheral interfaces
   - Three PCIe 3.0 controllers, one supporting x4 operation
   - One serial ATA (SATA 3.0) controllers
 - Additional peripheral interfaces
   - Three high-speed USB 3.0 controllers with integrated PHY
   - Enhanced secure digital host controller (eSDXC/eMMC)
   - Quad Serial Peripheral Interface (QSPI) Controller
   - Serial peripheral interface (SPI) controller
   - Four I2C controllers
   - Two DUARTs
   - Integrated flash controller (IFC) supporting NAND and NOR flash
 - QorIQ platform's trust architecture 2.1

LS2088A
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The LS2088A integrated multicore processor combines eight ARM Cortex-A72
processor cores with high-performance data path acceleration logic and network
and peripheral bus interfaces required for networking, telecom/datacom,
wireless infrastructure, and mil/aerospace applications.

The LS2088A SoC includes the following function and features:

 - Eight 64-bit ARM Cortex-A72 CPUs
 - 1 MB platform cache with ECC
 - Two 64-bit DDR4 SDRAM memory controllers with ECC and interleaving support
 - One secondary 32-bit DDR4 SDRAM memory controller, intended for use by
   the AIOP
 - Data path acceleration architecture (DPAA2) incorporating acceleration for
   the following functions:
   - Packet parsing, classification, and distribution (WRIOP)
   - Queue and Hardware buffer management for scheduling, packet sequencing, and
     congestion management, buffer allocation and de-allocation (QBMan)
   - Cryptography acceleration (SEC) at up to 10 Gbps
   - RegEx pattern matching acceleration (PME) at up to 10 Gbps
   - Decompression/compression acceleration (DCE) at up to 20 Gbps
   - Accelerated I/O processing (AIOP) at up to 20 Gbps
   - QDMA engine
 - 16 SerDes lanes at up to 10.3125 GHz
 - Ethernet interfaces
   - Up to eight 10 Gbps Ethernet MACs
   - Up to eight 1 / 2.5 Gbps Ethernet MACs
 - High-speed peripheral interfaces
   - Four PCIe 3.0 controllers, one supporting SR-IOV
 - Additional peripheral interfaces
   - Two serial ATA (SATA 3.0) controllers
   - Two high-speed USB 3.0 controllers with integrated PHY
   - Enhanced secure digital host controller (eSDXC/eMMC)
   - Serial peripheral interface (SPI) controller
   - Quad Serial Peripheral Interface (QSPI) Controller
   - Four I2C controllers
   - Two DUARTs
   - Integrated flash controller (IFC 2.0) supporting NAND and NOR flash
 - Support for hardware virtualization and partitioning enforcement
 - QorIQ platform's trust architecture 3.0
 - Service processor (SP) provides pre-boot initialization and secure-boot
 capabilities

LS2088A SoC has 3 more similar SoC personalities
1)LS2048A, few difference w.r.t. LS2088A:
       a) Four 64-bit ARM v8 Cortex-A72 CPUs

2)LS2084A, few difference w.r.t. LS2088A:
       a) No AIOP
       b) No 32-bit DDR3 SDRAM memory
       c) 5 * 1/10G + 5 *1G WRIOP
       d) No L2 switch

3)LS2044A, few difference w.r.t. LS2084A:
       a) Four 64-bit ARM v8 Cortex-A72 CPUs

LS2081A
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LS2081A is 40-pin derivative of LS2084A.
So feature-wise it is same as LS2084A.
Refer to LS2084A(LS2088A) section above for details.

It has one more similar SoC personality
1)LS2041A, few difference w.r.t. LS2081A:
       a) Four 64-bit ARM v8 Cortex-A72 CPUs

LX2160A
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The QorIQ LX2160A processor is built in the 16FFC process on
the Layerscape architecture combining sixteen ARM A72 processor
cores with advanced, high-performance datapath acceleration and
network, peripheral interfaces required for networking, wireless
infrastructure, storage, and general-purpose embedded applications.

LX2160A is compliant with the Layerscape Chassis Generation 3.2.

The LX2160A SoC includes the following function and features:
  Sixteen 32-bit / 64-bit ARM v8 A72 CPUs
  Cache Coherent Interconnect Fabric (CCN508 aka “Eliot”)
  Two 64-bit 3.2GT/s DDR4 SDRAM memory controllers with ECC.
  Data path acceleration architecture (DPAA2)
  24 Serdes lanes at up to 25 GHz
  Ethernet interfaces
  Single WRIOP tile supporting 130Gbps using 18 MACs
  Support for 10G-SXGMII (aka USXGMII).
  Support for SGMII (and 1000Base-KX)
  Support for XFI (and 10GBase-KR)
  Support for CAUI4 (100G); CAUI2 (50G) and 25G-AUI(25G).
  Support for XLAUI (and 40GBase-KR4) for 40G.
  Support for two RGMII parallel interfaces.
  Energy efficient Ethernet support (802.3az)
  IEEE 1588 support.
  High-speed peripheral interfaces
	Two PCIe Gen 4.0 8-lane controllers supporting SR-IOV,
	Four PCIe Gen 4.0 4-lane controllers.
	Four serial ATA (SATA 3.0) controllers.
	Two USB 3.0 controllers with integrated PHY
	Two Enhanced secure digital host controllers
	Two Controller Area Network (CAN) modules
	Flexible Serial peripheral interface (FlexSPI) controller.
	Three Serial peripheral interface (SPI) controllers.
	Eight I2C Controllers.
	Four PL011 UARTs supporting two 4-pin UART ports or four 2-pin UART ports.
	General Purpose IO (GPIO)
  Support for hardware virtualization and partitioning (ARM MMU-500)
  Support for GIC (ARM GIC-500)
  QorIQ platform Trust Architecture 3.0
  One Secure WatchDog timer and one Non-Secure Watchdog timer.
  ARM Generic Timer
  Two Flextimers
  Debug supporting run control, data acquisition, high-speed trace,
  performance/event monitoring
  Thermal Monitor Unit (TMU) with +/- 2C accuracy
  Support for Voltage ID (VID) for yield improvement

LX2160A SoC has 2 more similar SoC personalities
1)LX2120A, few difference w.r.t. LX2160A:
       a) Twelve 64-bit ARM v8 Cortex-A72 CPUs

2)LX2080A, few difference w.r.t. LX2160A:
       a) Eight 64-bit ARM v8 Cortex-A72 CPUs