SoC overview

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

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