Converged

industrial
networking for
Industry 4.0

Layerscape® LS1028A Family of

Industrial Applications Processors

Designed to enable the industrial IoT, the LS1028A family of industrial

application processors integrate 3D graphics, TSN-enabled Ethernet networking,
and high-performance PCIe® Gen 3.0 interfaces.

OVERVIEW TSN FOR CONVERGED NETWORKS IN THE INDUSTRIAL IoT

Support for 125 °C junction temperature, NXP’s commitment to To make the Industrial IoT and Industry 4.0 a reality,
production for a minimum of 15 years, and industrial qualification manufacturers must interconnect operations technology (OT),
makes this SoC family ideal for industrial applications that require such as manufacturing and automation systems, to their
reliability and long life in challenging environments. information technology (IT), including inventory, logistics, and
customer relationship management systems. Enabling the
TARGET APPLICATIONS flow of information between these two domains will increase
 Control and factory automation — robotics controllers, efficiency and reduce product delivery times.
I/O controllers, motion controllers Time-sensitive networking (TSN) enables the convergence
 Transportation – Gateways, HMI, embedded controllers of the IT and OT, using gigabit Ethernet to enable high
for mass transit and railways bandwidth and legacy IT equipment, but adding features
such as time-aware shaping, frame pre-emption, and frame
 IoT gateways
replication and elimination to ensure the OT network
 Networking gateways requirements are met. The LS1028A can support daisy chain
 Programmable logic controllers (PLCs) or ring deployments with its TSN capable switch, or endpoint
applications with the TSN capable Ethernet controller.
 Industrial PCs
 Avionics SECURITY
The LS1028A family of SoCs can implement trusted platforms
HIGHLY INTEGRATED DESIGN
using features provided by Trust Architecture such as secure
This family of SoCs integrates the high-performance boot, secure key storage, and tamper detection. The Security
Arm® Cortex®-A72 processor, Ethernet switching with TSN, Engine (SEC) provides cryptographic acceleration for encrypted
Trust Architecture with Security Engine, and a 3D GPU Ethernet communication and disk storage. The SEC also offloads
with support for 4K display and integrated DisplayPort/ public/private key transactions, with support for elliptic-curve
embedded DisplayPort interface. cryptography (ECC).
INDUSTRIAL OPERATION FEATURE LIST
Fully qualified for industrial operation, FEATURES BENEFITS

the LS1028A family is designed and tested Dual 64-bit Arm v8 Cortex -A72 Cores with NEON™
® ®
High single-threaded floating point and integer performance for
SIMD and floating point unit control applications
to run continuously in high-temperature
4 Switched TSN-enabled Ethernet interfaces Low latency, deterministic Ethernet communications for OT and
environments for 10 years. Devices 10/100/1000/2500 Mbit/s IT systems, deployed in daisy-chain, ring, or star topologies
are available for extended temperature
1 TSN-enabled Ethernet Interface TSN endpoint capabilities for control applications, with scalable
operation supporting a junction 10/100/1000/2500 Mbit/s bandwidth
temperature between -40 and 105 °C, 1 Ethernet Interface 10/100/1000 Mbit/s Low-power Ethernet for IT or console communications
and are also available with support for
Integrated 3D GPU, 4K LCD Controller, DP/eDP Phy High-resolution graphics for human machine interfaces
junction temperatures up to 125 °C.
Secure key storage, use secure boot to create a trusted platform
Trust Architecture
for industrial IoT applications
ENABLEMENT FOR FACTORY
Cryptographic and public key hardware accelerators offload
AUTOMATION Security Engine with Cryptographic Offload
math-intensive operations from the CPU

Open Industrial Linux® provides real-time 2 x PCIe® Gen 3.0 controllers, up to four SerDes lanes High-bandwidth, low-latency communication to host processors,
running at 8 GHz root, complex and endpoint support industrial communication ICs, and Wi-Fi® chipsets for gateways
processing performance on the LS1028A
2 x USB 3.0 interfaces with integrated PHY High-speed USB allows interconnection to many different
with support for bare-metal applications or peripheral devices, and the integrated PHY removes additional
host and device mode support components from the design
Xenomai Linux with an RTOS co-kernel.
Open Industrial Linux also provides protocol Flexible interconnect to support SATA 3.0, PCIe 3.0, 1 Gb and
4 x 10 GHz SerDes lanes
2.5 Gb Ethernet
support for Time-Sensitive Networking and
synchronization with IEEE® 1588.
LS1028A SOC FAMILY — SCALABLE PROCESSING WITH GRAPHICS
PRODUCT LONGEVITY FEATURES LS1028A LS1027A LS1018A LS1017A
The LS1028A is part of the NXP 15-year Arm® core 2 x Cortex®-A72 2 x Cortex-A72 1 x Cortex-A72 1 x Cortex-A72
product longevity program, ensuring 32-bit/16-bit DDR3L/ 32-bit/16-bit DDR3L/ 32-bit/16-bit DDR3L/ 32-bit/16-bit DDR3L/
DDR
a stable supply of the LS1028A for DDR4 + ECC DDR4 + ECC DDR4 + ECC DDR4 + ECC

long life industrial designs. Visit GPU 1 x GC7000UltraLite - 1 x GC7000UltraLite -

www.nxp.com/productlongevity 4 x 2.5 G/1 G switched 4 x 2.5 G/1 G switched 4 x 2.5 G/1 G switched 4 x 2.5 G/1 G switched
Eth (TSN enabled) Eth (TSN enabled) Eth (TSN enabled) Eth (TSN enabled)
for details.
Ethernet 1 x 2.5 G/1 G Eth 1 x 2.5 G/1 G Eth 1 x 2.5 G/1 G Eth 1 x 2.5 G/1 G Eth
(TSN enabled) (TSN enabled) (TSN enabled) (TSN enabled)
DEVELOPMENT PLATFORM 1 x 1 G Eth 1 x 1 G Eth 1 x 1 G Eth 1 x 1 G Eth

The LS1028A reference design board PCIe

2 x Gen 3.0 Controllers 2 x Gen 3.0 Controllers 2 x Gen 3.0 Controllers 2 x Gen 3.0 Controllers
(RC or EP) (RC or EP) (RC or EP) (RC or EP)
(RDB) provides the ability to evaluate
2 x USB 3.0 with PHY 2 x USB 3.0 with PHY 2 x USB 3.0 with PHY 2 x USB 3.0 with PHY
the capabilities of the LS1028A family USB
(Host or Device) (Host or Device) (Host or Device) (Host or Device)
of SoCs and get a jump-start on your
embedded design. Contact your NXP LS1028A: DUAL
LAYERSCAPE Arm® CORTEX
LS1028A BLOCK A72 PROCESSOR BLOCK DIAGRAM
DIAGRAM
sales representative for details.
Security
RELATED SOFTWARE Security Engine
Core Complex Memory Controller

Arm TrustZone® Arm Arm

 Linux SDK for Layerscape Processors Secure Boot Cortex –A72 Cortex –A72

16/32-bit DDR3L/4
 Open Industrial Linux SDK with support Power Management 48 KB L1-I
32 KB L1-D (w/ ECC)
48 KB L1-I
32 KB L1-D (w/ ECC)
Memory Controller (w/ ECC)

for real-time applications Standard Interfaces

1 MB L2 - Cache (w/ ECC)
2 x SD/SDIO/eMMC

 CodeWarrior® Development Software 3 x SPI Coherent Interconnect (CCI-400)

2 x UART, 6 x LPUART
for Arm v8 64-bit based Layerscape 8 x I C, GPIO
2 Accelerators and Memory High Speed Interfaces Networking Elements

6 x SAI, 2 x CAN-FD 256 KB On-Chip SRAM 2.5 GbE

series processors SATA 3
TSN Switch

FlexSPI PCIe® 3.0 2.5 GbE

8 x Flex Timer
2.5 GbE
 Uboot USB 3.0
w/ PHY
2.5 GbE
Multimedia Interfaces 3D GPU

 UEFI EDP/DP PHY

PCIe 3.0
USB 3.0
2.5 TSN GbE
4K LCD Controller w/ PHY 1 GbE

To learn more, visit nxp.com/LS1028A

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registered trademarks of Arm Limited (or its subsidiaries) in the US and/or elsewhere. The related technology may be protected by any or all of patents, copyrights, designs and trade secrets. All rights reserved. ©2018 NXP B.V.

Document Number: LS1028AFS REV 0

Date of Release: December 2018