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Chapter 1
LS1028ARDB Overview
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
®
Cortex
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-v8 A72 processor with frequency up to 1.3 GHz.
The 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.
NOTE
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.
1.1 Acronyms and abbreviations
The table below lists and explains the acronyms and abbreviations used in this document.
Table 1. Acronyms and abbreviations
Term Description
CAN Controller area network
CCI Cache coherency interconnect
CPLD Complex programmable logic device
CTS Clear to send
DCM Development system control monitor
DDR SDRAM Double data rate synchronous dynamic random-access memory
DIP Dual inline package
DPAA Data path acceleration architecture
DQS Data strobe
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