QorIQ(R) LS1043A Residential Gateway Reference Design The QorIQ LS1043A residential gateway reference design (LS1043A-RGW) is a comprehensive OpenWRT-based home router platform that can be leveraged by OEMs and ODMs to significantly shorten their design cycles and reduce time-to-market without compromising on quality or features. OVERVIEW FEATURE LIST The kit comes with a host of external connectors like 1GbE LAN ports, USB3.0, legacy TDM RJ11 connectors for POTS and an SD Card Slot. The LS1043A-RGW also includes an SFP+ cage which supports 10G, 2.5G or 1G wide area network (WAN) connections via fiber or copper links. An Arduino(R) shield header is available for prototyping low-power connectivity solutions such as NFC, ZigBee(R), BLE or Thread(R). Processor The system is based on the LS1043A communications processor powered by four Arm(R) Cortex(R)-A53 cores, and supported by NXP(R)'s broadband home router application solution kit (ASK), a production-proven software kit that delivers line-rate networking performance leveraging the LS1043A's hardware packet engine. The LS1043A-RGW offers a high-performance and cost-effective platform that enables customers to meet next-generation performance requirements while accelerating time-to-market. 2 GB DDR4 DRAM QorIQ LS1043A quad-core processor based on the Cortex-A53 core at 1.6GHz Hardware packet engine supports 10 Gbit/s performance and offloads CPU for value-added applications Memory -- 32-bit DDR4 bus up to 1600 MT/s 512 MB NAND Flash Ethernet SFP+ cage for WAN connection 4 x 1GbE LAN Ports QorIQ LS1043A RESIDENTIAL BLOCK DIAGRAM QorIQ LS1043A RESIDENTIAL GATEWAYGATEWAY REFERENCE DESIGN BLOCK DIAGRAM NAND DDR4 LS1043A QorIQ(R) FLASH DDR TDM SDIO/ eMMC USB 3.0 USB 3.0 Arduino(R) Shield Header (ZigBee(R)/BLE/Z-wave) Console GPON or Copper SFP Module PCIe UART/ GPIO UART 10 G 10 G 10 G 10 G 10 G XFI 10 G / 2.5 G / 1 G PCIe QSGMII POTS (FXS) Dual SLIC POTS (FXS) SD Card Slot mPCIe Slot mPCIe Slot Expandable up to 8 x 8 dual-band WiFi (R) F104 Quad PHY 4 x GbE Basic Peripherals & Interconnect QorIQ LS1043A-RGW BOARD 2 x super-speed USB 3.0 2 x RJ11 for POTS 1 x Micro-USB for console 1 x SD Card slot 2 x mini PCIe Arduino shield header (internal connector) Additional Features JTAG for debug Plastic enclosure with 8 internal polymer-embedded antennas Supports mini-PCIe Wi-Fi(R) modules up to 802.11ac 8 x 8 plus 802.11n 4 x 4 (not included) www.nxp.com/LS1043A NXP, the NXP logo and QorIQ are trademarks of NXP B.V. are registered trademarks of Arm Limited (or its subsidiaries) in the EU and/or elsewhere. All rights reserved. (c) 2019 NXP B.V. Document Number: LS1043ARGWFS REV 1