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Quatro 4230
Programmable SOC Solution
for Laser and Inkjet MFPs
Imaging
Software
Processors
Quatro SOCs
Solutions
Zoran Corporation
1390 Kifer Road
Sunnyvale, CA 94086-5305
www.zoran.com
Product Brief
The Quatro 4230 is a highly integrated, fully programmable
processor for laser printers, multifunction peripherals, and high
speed scanners. Based on Zoran's Quatro architecture, the 4230
combines an embedded ARM11™ RISC CPU core and dual
Quatro SIMD DSP cores for high quality copy image processing
and page description language (PDL) acceleration, providing
original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) with a compelling
combination of high-performance and programmability.The 4230
is ideal for applications such as monochrome and color laser
MFPs and high-speed document scanners.
Benefits
Key Features
Fast time-to-market
• 400 MHz ARM11 CPU core with MMU and FPU
• Dual 300 MHz quad-processor DSP cores
• 2400 MMACs DSP bandwidth
Programmable platform for deploying innovative features and
associated image processing pipelines
• USB 2.0 hi-speed device interface
• USB 2.0 hi-speed host interface
Cost-effective solution
High level of integration including USB, Ethernet, and PCI interfaces
• USB 2.0 full-speed host interface
• 200 MHz 32-bit DDR2 SDRAM interface (DDR2-400)
• 32-bit 66 MHz PCI interface
High performance
Specialized imaging DSP cores paired with high-performance
ARM11 CPU
• Ethernet MAC
• Scanner interface
PostScript/PCL printing at 16+ ppm color
• Programmable printer interface for multipass and tandem engines,
inkjet engines, and dye-sub engines
• Memory card interface: CompactFlash and SmartMedia
• Complete reference design
Raster/GDI printing at 30 ppm (4-bit CMYK)
12 full-coverage color copies per minute at 600 dpi
55 full-coverage monochrome copies per minute at 600 dpi
• Extensive image processing library
Description
PDL Support
Quatro Architecture
PDLs continue to be a key requirement for the office market and
help OEMs to meet the stringent interoperability requirements of
their customers. The ARM11 CPU core delivers high-performance
system and control processing with industry leading code density
and a high-quality development environment. The 4230 leverages
the ARM processor to power a color laser platform that processes
Zoran's PDL interpreter firmware, Integrated Print System (IPS).
The 4230 is based on Zoran's Quatro architecture. Quatro is a
scalable, extensible architecture for constructing programmable
processor solutions for imaging and printing devices.
At the heart of the Quatro architecture are four key elements:
• ARM11 32-bit RISC CPU core
• Quatro 4-datapath SIMD DSP cores
• Easy-to-use C-based programming environment
• Common firmware platform
Programmable Platform
The 4230 is a highly integrated processor solution for desktop office
printers and MFPs. OEMs can program the platform's features and
associated image processing pipeline as required across a range
of products spanning raster and PDL, print-only and MFP,
monochrome and color. The 4230's full programmability offers
OEMs significant time-to-market advantages over conventional
ASIC solutions.
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