Quatro
®
4110
Programmable SOC Solution
for Printing Appliances
Imaging
Software
Driving the Digital Lifestyle
Processors
Quatro SOCs
Solutions
Product Brief
Zoran Corporation
1390 Kifer Road
Sunnyvale, CA 94086-5305
www.zoran.com
The Quatro 4110 is a highly integrated, fully programmable
system-on-a-chip (SOC) solution for the emerging class of
appliance-type printers. Based on Zoran’s Quatro architecture,
the 4110 incorporates two proven processors—ARM9E RISC
CPU core and Quatro SIMD DSP core—to provide original
equipment manufacturers (OEMs) with an easy-to-program,
high-performance controller platform. The 4110 is ideal for
applications such as color inkjet multi-function peripherals
(MFPs), monochrome and color laser MFPs, direct-connect
digital photo printers, and set-top box printers—any printer that
involves one or more PC-independent functions.
Benefits
Fast time-to-market
Programmable platform for deploying innovative features and
associated image processing pipelines
Key Features
• 150 MHz ARM9 CPU core
• 210 MHz quad-processor DSP core
• 840 MMACs DSP bandwidth
• USB 2.0 hi-speed device interface
• Memory card interface: CompactFlash (including Microdrive),
Cost-effective solution
High level of integration including both PC and non-PC interfaces
Memory Stick, Memory Stick PRO, Secure Digital, xD-Picture
Card, MultiMediaCard and SmartMedia
• 5 full-coverage color copies per minute at 600 dpi
• 35 full-coverage monochrome copies per minute at 600 dpi
• Complete development tool suite
• Complete reference design
• Extensive image processing library
High performance
Specialized imaging DSP core paired with high-performance
ARM9E CPU
Description
PC-Independent Printing
The market for personal printers is beginning to undergo a dramatic
shift—away from traditional PC-centric printing peripherals and
toward new PC-independent printing appliances. Fueling this shift is
the rapid growth of digital photography, home Internet, and wireless
connectivity. As these fast-expanding technologies make their way
into the home, they are driving demand for a new class of appliance-
type printers that allow image-rich content such as web pages, digital
photos, and scanned documents to be printed without ever using a
PC. To meet the more demanding requirements of this emerging
class of appliance-type printers Zoran has created the Quatro 4110.
Programmable Platform
The 4110 is a highly integrated SOC solution for appliance-type
printers that OEMs can program to implement the features and
associated image processing pipeline required across a range of
products. Because it is fully programmable, the 4110 offers OEMs
significant time-to-market advantages over conventional ASIC
solutions.
Quatro Architecture
The 4110 is based on Zoran’s Quatro architecture. Quatro is a
scalable, extensible architecture for constructing programmable SOC
solutions for imaging and printing devices.
At the heart of the Quatro architecture are four key elements:
• ARM9E 32-bit RISC CPU core
• Quatro 4-datapath SIMD DSP core
• Industry-standard internal bus
• Easy-to-use C-based programming environment
07/06-MMCP
Imaging-Quatro 4110-PB-1.3
ZORAN [ ZORAN CORPORATION ]
