NXP FRWY-LS1046A small form factor edge computing platform

The Freeway LS1046A (FRWY-LS1046A) is a high-performance, low-cost edge computing platform, based on the QorIQ LS1046A quad-core 64-bit processor. The LS1046A supports DDR4, multiple Gigabit Ethernet, USB3.0, and M2_Type_E over PCIe Gen3 for Wi-Fi. The platform can enable high compute applications like AI/ML, industrial gateway, smart building gateway, wireless gateway and many more.

The FRWY-LS1046A-PA is the bare board option. The FRWY-LS1046A-AC comes in an enclosure and includes a plug-in IEEE802.11ac Wi-Fi module. For both options, an HTML page provides pre-installed demos and videos.

Key features

• High performance 64-bit quad-core Arm® Cortex®-A72 CPU
• EdgeScale provides device and application security, from HW root of trust, to apps
• High-performance, low-cost edge computing platform, based on the QorIQ LS1046A
• Onboard DDR4, multiple Gigabit Ethernet, USB3.0 and M2_Type_E over PCIe Gen3 for Wi-Fi

Additional features

Product Specification Highlights

• LS1046A 4 x Arm® Cortex®-A72 cores delivers 45,600 CoreMarks® of compute performance
• High speed up to 1.8 GHz

Network Elements

• 2 x M.2 slots PCIe Gen3 – Wi-Fi, 4G/LTE, AI/ML Accelerator
• 4 x Gigabit Ethernet
• 2 x USB3.0
• MikroBUS™ socket expansion for the Click board™ line of products – NFC, Sensors, BLE/ZigBee, LoRa, etc.

Basic Peripherals

• 4 GB DDR4 with ECC at 2.1 GT/s
• 4 Gb NAND FLASH
• 64 MB QSPI FLASH
• 32 GB MicroSD Card – Linux, Demos, Videos

Additional Features

• Expansion Headers – I2C, SPI, Clocks, Interrupts, GPIO
• Passive Cooling heat sink (fanless design)

Software Enablement

• Layerscape SDK (LSDK), OpenWRT, Yocto, Suse, EdgeScale
• Docker Containers, DPDK, Virtualization (KVM/QEMU)

Applications

• Automotive; Gateways
• Industrial; Industrial PCs; Factory and process automation
• Enterprise equipment; Cloud managed WLAN access points
• Service provider; Access routers; Cloud gateway
• Aerospace, defense and government; Avionics networking

Available tools

NXP delivers a wide range of tools, run-time software, reference solutions and services to accelerate your designs.

• CodeWarrior Development Suites for Networked Applications
• NXP Linux NXP Vortiqa OpenWRT based Application Solution Kit
• Professional Services & Support
  • Commercial Services
  • Linux SDK Support Package
  • Reference Design Software (RDS) Support Package