Quatro® 4300 Series by CSR plc

Semiconductor Vendor with ARM Processor RTL license from ARM

Product Description

The Quatro 4300 line of SoCs are highly integrated, programmable SoC solutions for printers, scanners and all-in-ones (AIOs). Each SoC embeds a high-performance ARM9 CPU core up to 350 MHz for processing page description languages (PDLs) and a Quatro SIMD DSP core for print acceleration and copy/scan image processing, targeting low-end applications.

• Monochrome laser/LED printers and AIOs up to 35 ppm
• Color laser/LED printers and AIOs up to 10 ppm
• Inkjet printers and AIOs
• Low-end document and photo scanners

Features Summary
CPU
• ARM926EJ-S CPU core with MMU up to 350 MHz

Memory
• 16-bit DDR2 interface
• Flash interface to serial NOR, parallel NOR and parallel NAND

Image Processing
• Quatro 4-datapath SIMD DSP core
• Color conversion hardware assist
• JBIG compression/decompression cores
• JPEG hardware assist core

Printer Interface
• Support for laser, LED, inkjet and thermal print heads
• Integrated frequency generator, synchronizer and PWM
• 8-bit flexRISC processor core for printer motor control

Scanner Interface
• Integrated 16-bit 25 MS/sec scanner AFE
• Interface to CCD and CIS sensors
• Support for single- and dual-sided scanning
• 8-bit flexRISC processor core for scanner motor control

Other Interfaces
• USB 2.0 hi-speed device port
• Up to 3 USB 2.0 hi-speed host ports
• 10/100 Ethernet MAC
• LCD interface
• Memory card interface
• Serial ports, SPI, GPIO
• JTAG

Miscellaneous
• Integrated real-time clock
• Integrated ADC

Package
• 27mm 352 ball BGA
• 14mm aQFN

Power
• Max power 1.1 W
• Low-power sleep 165 mW

Quatro® 4300 Series

Market Segment(s)

• Embedded

Target Platform(s)

• ITRON
• Linux
• ThreadX
• VxWorks

Companion Processor(s)

• DSP

ARM Processor(s)

• ARM926EJ-S

Physical IP

• DDR I/O (DDRI/II)

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