Freescale Semiconductor Document Number: LS1024A Data Sheet: Advanced Information Rev. 0, 09/2014 QorIQ LS1024A Data Sheet LS1024A The LS1024A product family addresses a wide variety the powerful LRO/TSO and XOR Engine, provide an of applications ranging from high-end VoIP and Video ideal solution for Network Attached Storage enabled home gateways, Small-to-Midsized Business applications. (SMB) high performance security appliances to In order to provide performance scalability and Ethernet powered 802.11ac enterprise access points maximum flexibility the LS1024A family of processors and consumer networked storage products. includes single and dual ARM Cortex-A9 core Building upon the field-hardened LS102MA, the devices from 650 MHz to 1.2 GHz delivering up to 6000 LS1024A series of processors delivers vastly increased DMIPS. processing power and VoIP density, wire speed The LS1024A OpenWRT Linux-based SDK is handling of small packets, DRM compliant security and optimized for both single- and dual-core operation. The enterprise grade VPN and SSL throughput. The new software deliverable for the LS1024A dual core devices chip allows considerable system cost savings by are backward compatible with the LS102MA and 100 integrating the new features that are now emerging in line of products. the CPE market. Additionally, Freescale s rich ecosystem delivers LS1024A leverages the energy efficient core turnkey solutions that reduce time-to-market and lower technology of ARM and Freescale s low-power design development costs for VPN/SSL SMB routers, home process to achieve the lowest power consumption in its gateway, Consumer NAS, and Enterprise Access Point class. Additionally, the companion software manufacturers. development kit provides a rich set of power management features to address the energy saving Figure 1-1 shows the block diagram of LS1024A device. goals of service providers and product manufacturers worldwide. In addition to providing high throughput IPSec and SSL CPU offload, the LS1024A s onboard security engine includes a powerful Deep Packet Inspection Engine with GZIP decompression capability. The device s three Ethernet interfaces allow for DMZ configuration providing further security for SOHO/SMB routers and gateways. LS1024A I/O interfaces in conjunction with Freescale s innovative multi-layer bus architecture allows non-blocking concurrent transactions across all data interfaces, thus minimizing on-chip packet processing latency. The LS1024A s SATA-2 interfaces, along with 2014 Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.Table of Contents Product Applications          . 1 Low Speed SPI            . 85 Features by Device Summary        . 1 Overview                . 85 Features                 85 Technical Overview           . 3 Functional Description          . 85 External Interfaces and Functional Blocks   . 3 Timing Parameters             89 Pinout and Signal Summary        . 7 Timer                 91 Ball Map                 . 7 Introduction               . 91 Signal Summary              27 Features                 91 Unused Interfaces             . 41 Functional Description          . 91 Expansion Bus Interface         . 45 One Time Programmable Memory     . 95 Introduction               . 45 Features                 95 Features                . 45 Functional Description          . 95 Block Overview              46 PCI Express Interface          . 99 Block Functional Description        47 Bootstrap Synchronization          59 Introduction               . 99 Asynchronous Interface           60 Features                 99 PCI Express Electrical Specifications     100 DDR3 Controller           . 61 Dual Core SMP ARM Cortex-A9    105 Introduction               . 61 DDR3 Controller Features          61 Overview                105 Supported Memory Configurations      . 61 ARM Cortex-A9 Features         . 105 Functional Description           . 62 L2 Cache Features            . 105 DDR3 SDRAM Interface Bus Timing     . 64 A9 Interrupt Controller          . 106 General Purpose Input Output       67 AXI / AHB Cross Connect Fabric     . 109 Introduction               . 67 Features                . 109 Features and Functions          . 67 Trust Zone               . 109 Clock and Reset            . 69 DUSI Subsystem            113 Clock Features              . 69 Features                . 113 Reset Features              70 DUSI Block Diagram          . 114 Clock Functional Description        70 Functional Description          115 Reset Functional Description         76 Timing Parameters            . 117 Timing Parameters             77 Deep Packet Inspection         . 121 Real Time Clock            . 81 Content Inspection Engine (CIE)      121 Features                . 81 Decompression Engine (Decomp)      . 121 Function Description            82 RTC Operation              . 82 QorIQ LS1024A Data sheet, Rev 0 Freescale Semiconductor iii