MFC2000 Multifunctional Peripheral Controller 2000
Hardware Description
1.2.1 Integrated Full Color MFP Controller (MFC2000)
The MFC2000 provides the majority of the electronics necessary to build a color scan and color inkjet printer
based MFP whose electronics are integrated into a one-chip solution including one CPU (ARM7TDMI) and two
DSPs (Countach Imaging DSP subsystem and P80 core).
Full printer and copier functionality is provided by the following:
• 1284 parallel port interface
• USB serial port interface
• Color scanner interface/controller
• Countach Imaging DSP subsystem for video/scan/compression process
• Flash memory controller
• SDRAM/DRAM controllers
• Resolution conversion logic
• Inkjet data formatter
• External inkjet printing
In addition, the MFC2000 performs facsimile control/monitoring, compression/decompression, and 33.6 Kbps Fax
Modem functions (P80 core). The MFC2000 interfaces with major MFP machine components like external
modems, SmartDAA, external Fax IA, motors, sensors, external video chip, and operator control panel. The
ARM7TDMI-embedded processor provides an external 48-MB direct memory access capability. An integrated
12-bit Pipeline ADC (PADC) and countach subsystem (DSP subsystem, combined with an advanced Conexant
proprietary color image processing algorithm, provides state of the art image processing performance on any type
of images, including text/half-tone and color images.
The full color MFP Engine provides the hardware and software necessary to develop a full-color Multifunctional
Peripheral including an architecture for color printing, color faxing, color scanning, video capturing, and color
copying. It also supports many of these operations concurrently.
1.2.1.1 Printing
The MFC2000 Controller supports color inkjet printing. Print speed throughput capabilities are inversely
proportional to resolution and also depend on the external printer interface. For host printing, the host sends the
image data with the print resolution; the MFC2000 performs no resolution conversion. If host printing and faxing
need to be performed for the same image, the printing image data must be sent to the MFP. The MFC2000
converts the printing image data to the faxing image data locally and then faxes it out. An external printer interface
chip is designed to support inkjet print mechanism/head subsystems. Different external printer interface chips can
be designed and used to support other inkjet mechanisms and heads according to customer requirements.
1.2.1.2 Faxing
Both host-based color faxing and standalone color faxing are supported in addition to monochrome faxing. Host-
based faxing can take place by using a Class One connection via the USB serial port or the P1284 parallel port.
For host faxing, the host sends the image data with the fax resolution; the MFC2000 performs no resolution
conversion. For standalone faxing, the resolution conversion is supported by the MFC2000. The standalone color
scan-to-fax function is supported using the advanced Conexant proprietary color image processing technology:
• Shading correction
• Gamma correction
• Pixel-based dark-level correction
• Color/monochrome image processing
• Color conversion
• JPEG
• Multi-level resolution conversion.
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