Ls1028Ardb Overview - NXP Semiconductors QorIQ LS1028A Reference Manual

Chapter 1

LS1028ARDB Overview

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The QorIQ LS1028A reference design board (LS1028ARDB) is a computing,
evaluation, development, and test platform supporting the QorIQ LS1028A processor,
which is a dual-core Arm
LS1028ARDB is optimized to support SGMII (1 Gbit/s), QSGMII (5 Gbit/s), PCIe x1 (8
Gbit/s), and SATA (6 Gbit/s) over high-speed SerDes ports, USB 3.0, DisplayPort, and
also a high-bandwidth DDR4 memory.
The LS1028ARDB can be used to develop and demonstrate human machine interface
systems, industrial control systems such as robotics controllers and motion controllers,
and PLCs. The reference design also provides the functionality needed for Industrial IoT
gateways, edge computing, industrial PCs, and wireless or wired networking gateways.
The board is lead-free and RoHS-compliant.
The LS1043A processor is used in the LS1028ARDB for early
evaluation of board. Throughout this document, description of
LS1028ARDB features also applies to the board with the
LS1043A interposer, unless otherwise noted.
Developers using the LS1028ARDB can perform standard debugging tasks, such as:
• Upload and run code
• Set breakpoints
• Display memory and registers
• Connect and incorporate proprietary hardware into target systems using the LS1028A
as a host processor
• Use the LS1028ARDB as a demonstration tool
The board support package (BSP) is developed using the Linux operating system. The
onboard CPLD provides startup configuration information for the U-Boot and Linux.
QorIQ LS1028A Reference Design Board Reference Manual, Rev. A, 02/2018
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Cortex -v8 A72 processor with frequency up to 1.3 GHz. The
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