- 2x Arm® Cortex®-A72 with NEON™ SIMD and FPU delivering more than 16,000 CoreMarks®
- Purpose-Built for Fanless, Small Form Factor Industrial Infrastructure
- Hardware Virtualized Environments
- Open Industrial Linux
The LS1028A has functionality for Industry 4.0 including Time-Sensitive Networking (for deterministic Ethernet), high-performance Cortex®-A72 cores, 3D graphics for HMI and integrated security capabilities using NXP's Trust Architecture. The LS1028A is an SoC of the Layerscape family with integrated 3D GPU for HMI, and support for TSN in the integrated Ethernet switch and independent Ethernet controllers.
The family consists of 4 parts: LS1028A, LS1027A, LS1028A, and the LS1017A, with either 1 or 2 Cortex®-A72 and the option to include HMI capabilities with DP/eDP, LCD Controller, and 3D GPU.
2x Arm® Cortex®-A72:
- 48 KB L1-I Cache/32 KB L1-D Cache with ECC
- 1 MB L2 Cache with ECC
- Flexible power/performance with 1300, 1000, 800 MHz core speeds
Purpose-built for fanless, small form-factor industrial infrastructure:
- High levels of integration for lower BoM
- 4 port Ethernet Switch with support for TSN, up to 2.5 Gbps per port
- Up to 4 SGMII (1 Gbps)
- one QSGMII (1 Gbps)/QXGMII (2.5 Gbps)
- Two independent Ethernet controllers
- SGMII/USXGMII port supports TSN, up to 2.5 Gbps
- RGMII to 1 Gbps
- 1588 1-step and 2-step hardware timestamping on all ports
High-speed serial I/O including 2x PCIe Gen 3 controllers, 1x SATA 3.0, and 2x USB 3.0 with PHY:
- PCIe root complex and endpoint
- USB Device and Host mode
3D GPU with integrated eDP/DP PHY:
- Up to 4K resolution
- Support for OpenGL, OpenCL
2x SD/SDIO/eMMC, 2x CAN FD, 8x UART, 8x Flex Timer, 8x I2C, 6x SAI (audio)
Hardware virtualized environments:
- Increase software flexibility with advanced hardware virtualization and virtualization software solutions
- Simplified I/O virtualization with I/O MMU for access to memory sharing
- Secure VM communication with hardware-enabled I/O port, core, and memory level partitioning
- Support for KVM and Linux containers to enable easy application deployment
Open Industrial Linux:
- Deterministic networking with support for Time-Sensitive Networking
- Real-time Xenomai Linux
- Bare metal framework for real-time bare-metal applications
- Industrial Grade Security, Trusted Computing, Cryptographic operations, end-to-end security
- CNC
- Access Communication
- Industrial PC/HMI
- Networking Gateway
- Industrial Switch/IoT Gateway
- Relay Protection Controller
- Smart Grid Gateway
- Railway Controllers/Network Gateways
- Avionics Control and Communications