Layerscape® 2088A and 2048A Processors

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LS2088A Processor Block Diagram

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Features

Core Complex

  • Eight 64-bit Cortex-A72 CPUs
    • Up to 2 GHz,
    • Clusters of two cores sharing 1 MB L2 cache
  • 1 MB L3 platform cache
  • Two 64-bit DDR4 SDRAM memory controllers
    • ECC and interleaving support,
    • Up to 2.1 GT/s

Networking Elements

  • Wire Rate I/O processor, featuring:
    • 8x 10 GbE
    • 8x 1 GbE
    • L2 switching on the Ethernet interface
    • XAUI/XFI/KR and SGMII
    • MACSec on up to four 1/10 GbE
  • 2x SATA 3.0
  • 4x PCIe Gen 3 controllers
  • SR-IOV support, Root Complex

Accelerators and Memory Control

  • Accelerated I/O processing (AIOP) at up to 20 Gb/s packet processing
  • 20 Gb/s SEC crypto acceleration
  • 10 Gb/s Pattern Matching Engine
  • 20 Gb/s Data Compression Engine
  • One secondary 32-bit DDR4 memory controller for the accelerated packet processing layer, up to 1.6 GT/s
  • 4 PCIe controllers (Gen3) supporting 1x8, 4x4, 4x2, 4x1 lane configurations

Basic Peripherals and Interconnect

  • Support for hardware virtualization and partitioning enforcement
  • Implements trust architecture combined with TrustZone®
    • Service processor (SP) provides pre-boot initialization and secure-boot capabilities
  • 2x USB 3.0 with PHY
  • Enhanced secure digital host controller
  • 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

LS20x4A Family Comparison Table

LS2088A LS2048A L2084A LS2044A
A-72 Cores 8 4 8 4
L2 Cache (MB) 4 2 4 2
Packet Processing Accelerator 20Gb/s 20Gb/s No No
L2 Switch Yes Yes Yes Yes

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Documentation

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Application Note (17)
Data Sheet (1)
Errata (1)
Fact Sheet (1)
Product Brief (1)
Reference Manual (3)
Supporting Information (2)
User Manual (1)
White Paper (1)

Design Files

Hardware

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Software

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4 software files

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Training

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