NXP Layerscape® LX2160A Processor
The LX2160A multicore processor - the highest-performance member of the Layerscape family
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 100GbE, hardware L2 switching, DPAA2 with 100Gbps 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 2.2GHz
- 18MB cache/on-chip memory
- 24 SerDes lanes, operating up to 25GHz
- Up to 16 Ethernet ports
- Supported Ethernet speeds include 1, 2.5, 10, 25, 40, 50, and 100 gigabits per second
- 114Gbps Layer 2 Ethernet switch
- Up to 24 PCIe Gen3 lanes, supporting ports as wide as x8
- 50Gbps security accelerator
- 100Gbps data compression/decompression engine
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