Product category: Microprocessors, Microcontrollers and DSPs
News Release from: NetSilicon (now Digi International) | Subject: NS9775
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 1 November 2004
Controller helps keep
colour printer online
The NS9775 single chip controller is being used by Konica Minolta to power the new magicolour 5430 DL 21page/min desktop colour laser printer
The NS9775's unique features such as its four parallel JBIG decoder channels, colour LCD controller, and industry standard interfaces including, 10/100BaseT Ethernet, USB (host or device), IEEE1284, PCI and serial ports, allow Konica Minolta to provide the high-performance tandem colour laser printer for the lowest overall build cost.
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"We selected NetSilicon's NS9775 for its high level of functionality", said Kei Hyodo, General Manager, Konica Minolta Systems Lab.
"The NS9775 allowed us to offer a full platform of printer products on a single-chip solution, which helped reduce costs.
NetSilicon's world-class technical support also made the design easy and decreased time to market".
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The NS9775 is a new family of ARM9-based NET+ARM microprocessors designed as high-performance single chip solutions to drive a new generation of lower cost, network connected desktop colour laser printers and multifunction printers (MFPs).
The microprocessor allows customers to offer a full platform of printer products on a single-chip solution and is available in speed grades of 200, 162 and 133MHz.
This enables OEMs to build an entire product line around one architecture.
"The NS9775 offers a breakthrough in cost and performance for the rapidly growing colour printer and MFP market", said Tim Counihan, Vice President of Marketing, NetSilicon.
"The NS9775 provides the processing performance necessary for high throughput printers and MFPs at a significantly lower overall bill of material cost compared to traditional architectures that use multiple chips".
"Konica Minolta was able to work closely with us allowing the company to greatly speed time to market".
To help printer and MFP companies speed time to market, the NS9775 is also available with the NetStream 2 Tandem Printer Controller reference design kit.
The kit provides a platform to develop printer and MFP controllers using the NS9775.
The NetStream 2 reference design kit includes the NET+Works development system, an optimised RTOS and controller firmware library, high-performance networking library, a detailed BOM, schematics, documentation and world-class technical support.
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