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Microprocessors, Microcontrollers and DSPs
News Release from: NetSilicon (now Digi International) | Subject: NS9775
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 30 January 2004
Processor takes charge of cost-sensitive
printers
The NS9775 is the latest in the range of ARM9-based NET+ARM microprocessors from NetSilicon.
The NS9775 is the latest in the range of ARM9-based NET+ARM microprocessors from NetSilicon Designed as a high-performance single chip solution to drive a new generation of lower cost, network connected desktop colour laser printers and multifunction printers (MFPs), the NS9775 offers a breakthrough in cost and performance for this rapidly growing market
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 1 Nov 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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To help printer and MFP companies speed time to market, NetSilicon is also introducing the NetStream 2 reference design kit - a reference design kit for a full featured controller that drives a commercially available 16/16 pages per minute tandem colour laser engine.
"The NS9775 lowers the current cost and helps increase performance benchmarks for desktop colour laser printers, enabling colour laser printers to compete on price with ink jet printers", said Hiro Kataoka, Vice President, NetSilicon.
"Aided by the NetStream 2 reference platform, OEMs can greatly accelerate their development schedules.
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Embedded processors gain real-time Java support
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Several major OEM programs on the NS9775 and NetStream 2 are already underway and are expected to reach production this spring".
The NS9775 was designed specifically to address the most cost sensitive portion of the colour laser printer market and contains a complete set of the major functional components necessary to develop colour printer or MFP controllers.
The core is a 32bit ARM926EJ-S microprocessor operating at speeds up to 200MHz.
Featuring tandem, multipass and monochrome video interfaces, the NS9775 is the first processor to feature four independent JBIG decoders, greatly increasing throughput performance for tandem and dual beam multipass laser printers.
To help customers reduce the cost of controllers, the NS9775 also includes a broad array of industry standard interfaces such as 10/100Base-T Ethernet, USB (host or device), IEEE1284, PCI, serial ports and a colour LCD controller.
Featuring DSP instructions, a Java byte code accelerator and a memory management unit, the NS9775 provides the processing performance necessary for high-throughput printers and MFPs at a significantly lower cost compared to traditional architectures that use multiple chips.
Enhancing NetSilicon's ability to serve the imaging market, the NetStream 2 tandem printer controller reference design kit provides a platform to develop printer and MFP controllers using the NS9775 and dramatically reduces time to market for OEMs.
The NetStream 2 reference design kit includes the controller board, a 16/16page/min tandem colour print engine, a sample printer driver for Windows supplied by Software 2000, the NET+Works development system for the NS9775, an optimised RTOS and controller firmware library, a high-performance networking library, a detailed BOM, schematics, documentation and support.
Optimised and designed as the core processor for network colour printers and MFPs, the NS9775 is supported by NetSilicon's NET+Works software development tool suite and networking software.
NetSilicon offers a full suite of printer-specific libraries.
The integrated approach of the NET+Works development tool suite helps customers achieve dramatic time-to-market reductions, reduce product unit costs, save engineering resources and reduce design risk.
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