Quatro® 4500 Series by CSR plc

Semiconductor Vendor with ARM Processor RTL license from ARM

Product Description

The Quatro line of SOCs is a family of highly integrated, programmable processors for printers, scanners and all-in-ones (AIOs). Each SOC embeds a high-performance ARM® CPU core for processing page description languages (PDLs) and a Quatro SIMD DSP core for print acceleration and copy/scan image processing.

With the Quatro family, developers can efficiently build cost-effective controllers for a wide range of products using a single firmware base. The Quatro 4500 series integrates an ARM11MP CPU core (single- and dual-core versions, up to 700 MHz) and targets high-performance applications:

• Monochrome laser/LED printers and AIOs up to 70 ppm
• Color laser/LED printers and AIOs up to 35 ppm
• Workgroup document scanners

Low-end applications are covered by the Quatro 4300 series.
The Quatro programmable architecture enables developers to differentiate their products. By utilizing the Quatro SOC’s programmable cores, developers can implement unique features, image processing algorithms and mechanism control.


Features Summary

CPU
• Single or dual ARM11MP CPU core with MMU and FPU
• Up to 700 MHz

Memory
• 1 MByte L2 cache / scratchpad
• 32-bit DDR2 interface
• Flash interface to serial NOR, parallel NOR and parallel NAND

Image Processing
• Quatro 4-datapath SIMD DSP core
• Hardware image processing pipeline
Shading correction
1D lookup
Fringing correction
White point tracking
White point calibration
Gamma correction
RGB-YCC color conversion
YCC-CMYK color conversion
• Dual JBIG compression/decompression cores
• JPEG hardware assist core

Printer Interface
• Support for laser (up to 8) and LED print heads
• Integrated frequency generator, synchronizers, PWMs, LVDs drivers

Scanner Interface
• Integrated to scanner AFE
• Support for 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
• 2.0 USB 2.0 hi-speed host ports
• Gigabit Ethernet MAC
• PCI Express
• LCD interface
• Memory card interface
• Serial ports, SPI, GPIO
• JTAG

Miscellaneous
• Integrated real-time clock
• Integrated ADC

Package
• 27mm 520 ball BGA

Power
• Max power 4.0 W
• Low-power sleep 320 mW

Quatro® 4500 Series

Market Segment(s)

• Embedded

Companion Processor(s)

• DSP

ARM Processor(s)

• ARM11 MPCore

Physical IP

• DDR I/O (DDRI/II)

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