Datasheet
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TARGET APPLICATIONS
The LX2160A addresses traditional
networking control and data plane
applications as well as networking
equipment running virtualized
network functions.
A72
A72
A72
A72
A72
A72
A72
A72
72-bit
DDR4
with
ECC
72-bit
DDR4
with
ECC
A72
A72
A72
A72
A72
A72
A72
A72
Secure Boot
x8 Gen4 PCIe
x8 Gen4 PCIe
x4 Gen4 PCIe
x4 Gen4 PCIe
x4 Gen4 PCIe
x4 Gen4 PCIe
SATA3
SATA3
SATA3
SATA3
2MB Packet Express Buffer
SEC – 50G
130 Gbit/s
1 / 2.5 / 10 / 25 / 40 / 50 /
100G Ethernet
24 lanes @ up to 28 GHz
DCE – 100G
QB-Man
Arm
®
TrustZone
®
Power Management
SD/eMMC
2 x DUART
6 x I
2
C
SPI, GPIO, JTAG
2 x USB3.0 + PHY
2 x CAN-FD
1MB L2
1MB L2
1MB L2
IO MMU
IO MMU
IO MMU
IO MMU
1MB L2
1MB L2
1MB L2
1MB L2
1MB L2
Interconnect
WRIOP
8MB Platform Cache
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APPLICATION EXAMPLES RELEVANT FEATURES
Network function
virtualization
• Enterprise customer premise
equipment
• Service provider edge routers
• DPDK, OVS, Virtio application interfaces
• Direct assignment
• Virtualized acceleration
• Standard install environment: UEFI,
ONIE, ACPI, uboot
White box switching
• Control plane for L2 switches
in TOR and EOR applications
• Host VMs on the switch
• 50 Gbit/s IPsec offload
• Datacenter-friendly
25 GE ports
• ONL, ONSL Switch APIs
Storage controller
• RAID controller
• All flash arrays
• Intelligent storage accelerator
• 100 Gbit/s compression
• 50 Gbit/s IPsec
• Dedup
• RAID 5/6
5G packet processing
• C-RAN
• Macro base station
• PDCP, transport, MAC/RLC software
• High performance IPsec elephant flow
• LTE Air crypto
• Hardware QoS
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Document Number: LX2160AFS REV 0
Date of Release: October 2017
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LX2160A LX2120A LX2080A
Cores 16 12 8
L2 cache 8 MB 6 MB 8 MB
SerDes 24 at up to 28 GHz
PCIe 6 x Gen4
DDR 2 x DDR4, 3200 MT/s, 256 GB capacity
Plat cache + PEB 10 MB
WRIOP 130 Gbit/s L2 swtich 2 x 40/50/100 GE + 16x 1/2.5/10/25 GE
SEC 50 Gbit/s
DCE 100 Gbit/s
Package 40 x 40 mm, 1517 pins