Overview

The QorIQ LS2088A processor based Intelligent SSD (referred as iSSD) card is built with NXP’s second-generation data path architecture which delivers scalable acceleration elements sized for application needs unprecedented efficiency, smarter and more capable platform.

The LS2088A integrated multicore processor combines eight ARM® Cortex®-A57 processor cores with high-performance data path acceleration logic and network and peripheral bus interfaces required for networking, telecom/datacom, wireless infrastructure, and mil/aerospace applications.

This iSSD Card is NVMe compatible in a PCI Express form factor thereby enumerating it as PCIe Gen3 device.

LS2088A iSSD Card has two boards:

• iNIC Card: It is the main board with processor residing in it.
• Storage Card: It contains FPGA and the NVDIMMs

The QorIQ based iNIC supports two PCI Express® x4 Gen3 host interface, as well as an SD/MMC card slot and one USB 3.0 port. These components integrated with the LS family, makes it ideal platform for target applications. The LS2088A-iSSD supports two 8GB DDR4 SODIMM with ECC 128 MB of NOR flash and 512Kbit I2C EEPROM. Storage card having the support of both DDR3 and NAND DIMMs.

The LS2088A-iSSD is pre-loaded with the Embedded Linux® Essentials for QorIQ processors with data path acceleration software development kit. This kit includes a 64-bit SMP Linux kernel, hugetlbfs for applications with a large memory footprint, user space Data Path Acceleration Architecture for high-performance packet handling, u-boot, the GCC tool chain and virtualization support, among many other features.

Two versions of Altera Stratix V FPGA's are available

• Stratix A3 (5SGXEA3K3F40C4)
• Stratix A7 (5SGXEA7K3F40C3)

Customer can choose any version as per his requirement.