NXP LX2160A | Demoboard LX2160A-RDB

Description

The LX2160A multicore processor, the highest-performance member of the Layerscape family, combines FinFET process technology's low power and sixteen Arm® Cortex®-A72 cores with datapath acceleration optimized for L2/3 packet processing, together with security offload, robust traffic management and quality of service.This advanced sixteen-core 64-bit Arm processor is ideal for applications such as 5G packet processing, network function virtualization (NFV), white-box switching, high-processing industrial computers, machine learning and smart Network Interface Cards. The high level of integration delivers significant performance benefits such as 100 GbE, hardware L2 switching, DPAA2 with 100 Gbps decompression/compression and 50 Gbps SEC and multiple PCIe Gen3.0 and SATA controllers.For Edge Computing, this processor offers outstanding computing performance with a powerful packet offload and Ethernet controllers. You can have high-end and high-speed communications in one device, with low-speed peripherals such as sensors and the computing power to process and act upon all received information.Layerscape processors are part of NXP's EdgeVerse™ edge computing platform.

Features

• 16 Cortex-A72 CPU cores, running up to 2.2 GHz
• 18 MB cache/on-chip memory
• 24 SerDes lanes, operating up to 25 GHz
• Up to 16 Ethernet ports
• Supported Ethernet speeds include 1, 2.5, 10, 25, 40, 50, and 100 gigabits per second
• 114 Gbps Layer 2 Ethernet switch
• Up to 24 PCIe Gen3 lanes, supporting ports as wide as x8
• 50 Gbps security accelerator
• 100 Gbps data compression/decompression engine
• Proven certifiable to the Arm SystemReady ES standard to ensure interoperability with standard operating systems and hypervisors

Typical applications

• Personal/Consumer NAS
• 5G packet processing, Enterprise Access Point, Network function virtualization
• Smart NIC, Storage Controller, White box switching
• Aerospace / Defense, Avionics
• Automotive High Performance Compute
• Building Security, Industrial Control

More information

• Datasheet
• IC product information