NS9775
- 32-bit ARM926EJ-S RISC Processor
- Print Engine
- External System-Bus Interface
- System Boot
- High-Performance 10/100 Ethernet MAC
- PCI/CardBus Port
- Flexible LCD Controller
- USB Ports
- Serial Ports
- I2C Port
- 1284 Parallel Peripheral Port
- High Performance Multiple-Master/Distributed DMA System
- System Bus
- Peripheral Bus DMA
- External Peripheral DMA
- Power Management (Patent Pending)
- Vector Interrupt Controller
- General Purpose Timers/Counters
- System Timers
- General Purpose I/O
- External Interrupts
- Clock Generator
- Operating Grades/Ambient Temperatures
- Details on ARM9 Core
32-bit ARM926EJ-S RISC Processor
- 200 MHz
- 5-stage pipeline
- Harvard architecture
- 8 kB I-Cache and 4 kB D-Cache
- 32-bit ARM and 16-bit Thumb instruction sets, can be mixed for performance/code density tradeoffs
- MMU to support virtual memory based OS’s such as Linux, WinCE/Pocket PC, VxWorks, others
- DSP instruction extensions, improved divide, single cycle MAC
- ARM Jazelle, 1200CM (CoffeeMarks) Java Accelerator
- Embedded ICE-RT debug unit
- JTAG boundary scan, BSDL support
Print Engine Controller
- 4 parallel JBIG decoders
- Internal bypass foruncompressed data
- Automatic and manual headerprocessing modes
- Glueless interface to most printengines
- 4 data ports for color tandemprinters
- Single port for 4-pass colorprinters
- Single port for monochromeprinters
- Up to 13” lines at 2400 dpi Up to 13” lines at 2400 dpi Up to 13” lines at 2400 dpi Up to 13” lines at 2400 dpi
- High print speed:
- Tandem: 90 ppm
- 4-pass color: 22 ppm
- Monochrome: 90 ppm
- These conditions yield the above performance:
- Page size: 8.5” x 11”
- Resolution: 600 x 600 dpi
- Video clock: 100 MHz
- Horizontal correction factor: 0.7
- Vertical correction factor: 0.7
- Asynchronous print mode with internal PLL
- Clock rates up to 100 MHz
- Synchronous print mode with 1or 4 external clocks:
- Clock rates up to 200 MHz
- Bus Master on the system bus and a dedicated 4-channel DMA engine, one per color plane
- On-chip input and output FIFOs,one pair per color plane
- General communication through serial and GPIO ports
External System-Bus Interface
- 32-bit data bus, 32-bit internal address bus, 28-bit external address bus
- Glueless interface to SDRAM,SRAM, EEPROM, buffered DIMM, Flash
- 4 static and 4 dynamic memory chip selects
- 0-63 wait states per chip select
- Self-refresh during system sleep mode
- Automatic dynamic bus sizing to 8-bits, 16-bits, 32-bits
- Burst-mode support with automatic data width adjustment
- 2 external DMA channels for external peripheral support
System Boot
- High-speed boot from 8-bit, 16-bit, or 32-bit ROM or Flash
- Hardware-supported low cost boot from serial EEPROM through SPI port (patent pending)
High-Performance 10/100 Ethernet MAC
- 10/100 Mbps MII/RMII PHY interfaces
- Full-duplex or half-duplex
- Station, broadcast, or multicast address filtering
- 2 kB RX FIFO
- 256 byte Tx FIFO with on-chip buffer descriptor ring
- Eliminates under runs and decreases bus traffic
- Separate Tx and Rx DMA channels
- Intelligent receive-side buffer size selection
- Full statistics gathering support
- External CAM filtering support
PCI/CardBus Port
- PCI v.2.2, 32-bit bus, up to 33 MHz bus speed
- Programmable to:
- PCI device mode
- PCI host mode: Supports up to 3 external PCI devices (embedded PCI arbiter or externalarbiter)
- CardBus host mode
Flexible LCD Controller
- Supports most commercially available displays
- Active Matrix color TFT displays: Up to 24bpp direct 8:8:8 RGB;16M colors
- Single- and dual-panel color
- STN displays:Up to 16bpp 4:4:4 RGB;3375 colors
- Single- and dual-panelmonochrome
- STN displays:1, 2, 4bpp palettized gray scale
- Formats image data and generates timing control signals
- Internal programmable palette-LUT and grayscaler support different color techniques
- Programmable panel-clock frequency
USB Ports
- USB v.2.0 Full speed (12 Mbps) and Low speed (1.5 Mbps)
- Configurable to device or OHCI host
- USB host is a bus master
- USB device supports one bi-directional control endpoint and 11 unidirectional endpoints
- All endpoints supported by a dedicated DMA channel; 13 channels total
- 20B Rx FIFO and 20B Tx FIFO
Serial Ports
- 4 serial modules, each independently configurable to UART mode, HDLC mode, SPI Master mode, or SPI Slave mode
- Bit rates from 75 bps to 921.6 kbps: asynchronous x16 mode
- Bit rates from 1.2 kbps to 6.25 Mbps: synchronous mode
- UART provides
- High-performance hardware and software flow control
- Odd, even, or no parity
- 5, 6, 7 or 8 bits
- 1 or 2 stop bits
- Receive-side character and buffer gap timers
- Internal or external clock support, digital PLL for Rx clock extraction
- 4 receive-side data match detectors
- 2 dedicated DMA channels per module, 8 channels total
- 32 byte Tx FIFO and 32 byte RxFIFO per module
I2C Port
- I2C v.1.0, configurable to Master or Slave mode
- Bit rates: fast (400 kHz) or normal (100 kHz) with clock stretching
- 7-bit and 10-bit address modes
- Supports I2C bus arbitration
1284 Parallel Peripheral Port
- All standard modes:
- ECP, Byte, Nibble, Compatibility (also known as SPP or“Centronix”)
- RLE (Run Length Encoding) decoding of compressed data in ECP mode
- Operating clock from 100 kHz to 2 MHz
High Performance Multiple-Master/Distributed DMA System
- Intelligent bus bandwidth allocation (patent pending)
- System bus and peripheral bus
System Bus
- Every system bus peripheral is a bus master with a dedicated DMA engine
Peripheral Bus DMA
- One 13-channel engine supports USB device
- 2 DMA channels support control endpoint
- 11 DMA channels support 11 endpoints
- One 12-channel engine supports
- 4 serial modules (8 DMA channels)
- 1284 parallel ports (4 DMA channels)
- All DMA channels support fly-by mode
External Peripheral DMA
- One 2-channel DMA engine supports external peripheral connected to memory bus
- Each DMA channel supports memory-to-memory transfers
Power Management (Patent Pending)
- Power save during normal operation
- Disables unused modules
- Power save during sleep mode
- Sets memory controller to refresh
- Disables all modules except selected wakeup modules
- Wakeup on valid packets or characters
Vector Interrupt Controller
- Decreased bus traffic and rapid interrupt service
- Hardware interrupt prioritization
General Purpose Timers/Counters
- 16 independent 16-bit or 32-bit programmable timers or counters
- Each has an I/O pin
- Mode selectable into:
- Internal timer mode
- External gated timer mode
- External event counter
- Can be concatenated
- Resolution to measure minute-range events
- Source clock selectable: internal clock or external pulse event
- Each can be individually enabled/disabled
System Timers
- Watchdog timer
- System bus monitor timer
- System bus arbiter timer
- Peripheral bus monitor timer
General Purpose I/O
- 50 programmable GPIO pins (muxed with other functions)
- Software-readable power-up status registers for every pin for customer-defined bootstrapping
External Interrupts
- 4 external programmable interrupts
- Rising or falling edge-sensitive
- Low level- or high level-sensitive
Clock Generator
- Low-cost external crystal
- On-chip phase locked loop (PLL)
- Software programmable PLL parameters
- Optional external oscillator
- Separate PLL for USB
Operating Grades/Ambient Temperatures
- 200 MHz: 0° C to 70° C
Details on ARM9 Core
- 32/16-bit Harvard RISC architecture with 5 stage pipeline (ARMv5TEJ)
- 32-bit ARM instruction set for maximum performance and flexibility
- 16-bit Thumb instruction set for increased up to 35% code density
- DSP instruction extensions and single cycle MAC
- ARM Jazelle technology, 6 CM/MHz = 1200 Caffeine Marks @ 200 MHz
- MMU which supports Windows CE and Linux
- EmbeddedICE-RT logic for real-time debug

