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Layerscape 1046A Processor Broadband Home Router Application Solutions Kit
The NXP® ASK (Applications Solutions Kit) Software package for the LS1046A processor turns the LS1046A into a mostly autonomous ISO layer 3 packet processing system, offering many NO-CPU-NEEDED ethernet routing and switching fast paths so that the ARM A72 CPUs can be harnessed to make applications that provide differentiation and extra features for your customers.
Autonomous routing of routine traffic through the LS1046A at 20G allows the ARM A72 to focus on revenue producing extra tasks such as running a Voice over IP telephone or IPTV!
The NXP ASK SW Package makes a single chip routing/switching engine possible.
Software Details
Diagram
Features
- Custom binary firmware software with routing/switching functions that turn the DPAA + OpenWRT into an amazing OSI Layer 3 capable device with hardware latency and throughput and a reduced bill of material
- OpenWRT distribution that is well tested with millions of units deployed worldwide.
- Flexible and optimized software architecture – allows for multiple application concepts including a standard set of API which make it easy to swap out different NXP CPU for performance scalability. Additionally, upon special request if on the premium subscription, NXP can help enable other distributions!
- Hardware Security which can be used for a TRUE root-of-trust and for true NIST/FIPS certifiable encrypted communications at HARDWARE SPEEDS. No external entropy sources needed!
- Works in conjunction with NXP LSDK to make it easy to get your board ASK-ready. Also, NXP can help you evaluate with BSPs targeted to our development boards.
- Support which is rapid, forceful, and knowledgeable – designed specifically to get your project into production with exactly what you need to thrill your customers.
Supported Devices
- LS1046A: Layerscape® 1046A and 1026A Processors
Benefits
- Delivers 20 Gbps (called Line Rate for the LS1046A) performance at less than 5% total CPU loading and provides flexibility to offload current and future bandwidth hungry applications.
- More than six years of rigorous field tests and millions of deployments. Hardened and mature software distribution reduces time to market.
- Easy to port and integrate third-party software stacks. Significantly reduces software design cycle. Ensures ample headroom for run-time services even during peak performance.
- Support for Secure boot and Trusted Environment with High-performance SEC Engine and Gigabit Encryption
- Scalable software architecture and common code base across design for varying customer needs
- Commercial support packages gives customer direct access to R&D. Get to Production quickly.
OpenWRT
LS1046A OpenWRT Linux BSP and ASK Overview
The package includes access to the source code of all the board support packages and OpenWRT Broadband Home Router ASK and binaries of packet forwarding engine.
Linux OpenWRT
- U-Boot
- BSPs
- Linux kernel (Version linked to NXP LSDK version. Please call for supported kernels)
- Linux file system
- Application drivers
- Binary for ethernet packet forwarding engine (DPAA)
Networking Services
- TCP/UDP
- Ipv4
- RFC 2684 routed, bridged
- PPP/PPPoE
- ICMP
- NAT/NAPT
- IGMP and MLDv6
- DHCP/DHCPv6
- 802.1d bridging
- IP forwarding
- 802.1p, 802.q
- (s)RTCP
- (s)RTP
IPv6
- Base protocol
- Neighbor discovery
- Auto-configuration
- ICMPv6
- Multicast addressing
- MLDv2
- DHCPv6
- IPv6/IPv4 dual stack
- IPv4 over IPv6 tunneling
- MLDv2 Snooping Driver support
- Multi-tier wireless LAN vendor driver support for 11n and 11ac.
- USB stack
- PCIe stack
- I2C driver
- SPI driver
- Gig Ethernet MAC drivers
- IPsec engine control
- UART access
- GPIO control
- Interrupt service routine
Security
- SPI firewall
- IKE IPsec
- OpenSSL
- L2TP, PPTP, ETHERIP
Client/Server
- FTP
- HTTP
- Telnet
- SSH
- SAMBA
- NFS
- NTP
QoS
- Classful and Classless Queuing
- Traffic shaping
- Rate limiting
- Ingress control
- Diff serv
Fast Path Support
- Fast path is the ability to BYPASS the Linux (or other OS) networking software stacks and send a packet from one IO (usually ethernet IO) to another IO. In the NXP fast path, the fast path NOT ONLY avoids layers of SW, but can be nearly 100% hardware. So the NXP fast path can be very fast. The following items can be managed in the NXP fast path which is defined in this ASK software package.
- TCP/UDP
- IPv4/IPv6
- PPPoE
- NAT/NAPT
- NPT 64/NAT-PT
- IPsec tunnel and transport
- Networked attached storage - TSO and LRO operations
- EtherIP
- 4RD/4 over 6/ 6 over 4
- Egress QoS
- Traffic shaping and ratelimiting
- IPv4/Ipv6 Multicast
- RTP relay/cut thru
- GRE over IPSec
- L2TP over IPSec
- EtherIP
- IPv4/v6 Fragmentation and reassembly
- Jumbo Frames
- Vlan/QinQ
- L2 Bridging
- DSCP and P-Bits
- Policy based routing
- Session based stats
- Other protocols available upon request. Please contact NXP to have your specialty protocol added.
Accessibility
- WEB GUI (NXP does not generally customize this for customers)
- CLI
- Telnet
- SSH
- TR-069 call back frame work
Diagnostics
- TCPDump
- Cyclesoak
- RTP/RTCP stats
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Libraries
ASK Loadable binaries for LS1046A
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