The differentiating features of the LS1024A are shown in this block diagram. The LS1024AA uses a dual Arm Cortex-A9 running at 1.2 GHz with 32-bit DDR controller, and 256 KB of L2 cache arranged in one cluster. One of the most important features of LS1024A is their Packet Processing Accelerator with a Deep packet processing engine and crypto processing. Also worth noting are the high-speed interfaces with PCIe Gen3, SATA, USB3.0 with PHY and three Gigabit Ethernet interfaces.