The Quatro 4200 family is ideal for applications that require one or more PCindependent functions such as color inkjet AIOs, monochrome and color laser AIOs, and direct-connect photo printers with Hi-Speed USB or memory card interfaces.

Benefits

Cost-effective solution Highly integrated system-on-a-chip with both PC and non-PC interfaces, enabling the lowest possible cost Rapid time-to-market Programmable platform for rapidly deploying innovative features and associated image processing pipelines

High performance Specialized imaging DSP core paired with the industry-leading ARM7 CPU core

Three series tailored to the needs of specific segments

Entry-Level Print Appliances

The entry-level segments within the market for print appliances AIOs and direct-connect photo printers are growing dramatically. Driving this growth are lower prices, innovative features, and the proliferation of image-rich content from digital cameras, scanned documents, and the Web. The 4200 family is designed to address the aggressive cost requirements of these segments. Through its full programmability, the 4200 family allows OEMs to rapidly bring products to market and with more innovative features, including graphical LCD displays, fax, and high-speed USB camera docks.

Programmable Platform

The 4200 family is a highly integrated SOC solution for appliance printers that OEMs can program to implement the features and associated image processing required across a range of products. Because it is programmable, the 4200 family offers OEMs both significant time-to-market advantages and differentiation over conventional ASIC solutions.

Quatro Architecture

The 4200 family is based on a scalable, extensible platform for constructing programmable SOC solutions in imaging and printing devices. At the heart of the architecture are four key elements:

By pairing the ARM CPU core with the Quatro DSP core, the Quatro solution provides OEMs with a unique combination of high performance processing and easy-to-use programmability. The ARM CPU core, the established leader in embedded CPU cores, delivers high performance system and control processing with dense code size and a highly regarded software development tool suite. The 4200 family Quatro DSP core builds on 6 generations and 10 years of Zoran Quatro DSP technology. The 4-datapath parallel processing Single Instruction, Multiple Data (SIMD) architecture is specifically tailored for imaging applications, delivering unmatched performance. The Quatro DSP offers up to 530 million multiplyaccumulates (MACs) per second at 133 MHz, allowing new imaging features to be quickly implemented without changing hardware, enabling rapid time-to-market and minimizing development expense.

Programming Environment

The programming environment for the 4200 family is based on the ARM RealView Developer Suite, widely recognized as one of the best embedded development tool sets available. To these proven ARM tools Zoran integrates a set of tools for programming the Quatro DSP-C compiler assembler, simulator, debugger, and libraries. Using the ARM CPU and Quatro DSP simulators, an OEM’s complete system-both system functions and image processing pipelines-can be fully developed and simulated on a PC. Zoran’s extensive library of optimized image processing algorithms makes developing image processing pipelines easy.

Reference Design

To further shorten time-to-market, Zoran provides OEMs with a reference design for an inkjet AIO. The reference design includes both a controller board and firmware. The reference controller board also serves as a development board that OEMs can use to prototype their own system code.

Key Features

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