Processor Family

QorIQ LS1043A Reference

Design Board

for embedded networking and industrial infrastructure.

PROCESSOR OVERVIEW

Both the dual-core version (LS1023A) and quad-core version

(LS1043A) deliver greater than 10 Gbit/s of performance,

flexible I/O and support for fanless, small-form-factor designs

with BOM optimizations for economic low-layer PCB, lower

cost power supply and single clock design such as integrated

service branch routers, SDN and NFV edge platforms,

industry 4.0 gateways, industrial PLC and control and

security appliances.

The QorIQ LS1043A processor takes ARM processing

performance to the next level with up to four 64-bit cores

operating at 1.6 GHz and a large 1 MB L2 cache for the

best CPU performance per watt in a processor that runs on

voltage as low as five watts. This powerful CPU complex is

coupled with the proven offload engines of the QorIQ data

path acceleration architecture (DPAA) to deliver up to 10

Gbit/s performance and protocol processing with minimal

CPU overhead.

REFERENCE DESIGN BOARD

The QorIQ LS1043A reference design board (LS1043A-RDB)

and NXP software development kit (SDK) can help shorten

your time-to-market. The board, which exercises most

capabilities of the device, serves as a reference for your

hardware development. It can also be used as a debug tool

to check behaviors on the board compared to behaviors

seen on prototype boards.

mini-PCI Express connector, an SD/MMC connector

interface and three USB 3.0 receptacles. These components,

integrated with the QorIQ LS1043A processor, provide an

applicationspecific platform that can help you get a jump

start on your next design. The LS1043A-RDB also supports 2

GB of DDR4 at 1600 MHz, 128 MB of NOR flash and 512 MB

NAND flash.

In addition, the LS1043A-RDB is loaded with the Embedded

v1.8. The SDK includes a 64-bit SMP Linux kernel, user

space DPAA for high-performance packet handling, U-boot,

the GCC tool chain and virtualization support and many

other features.