Fujitsu Microelectronics Asia Pte Ltd

Fujitsu & iDOC Develop Embedded Software for FR500 Series of Microprocessors to Drive Color Laser Printers

Singapore, 21 February 2002 — Fujitsu Microelectronics Asia Pte Ltd (FMAL) announced the release of the embedded software interpreter for color laser printers, IPS™ 2000PS3 *⁽¹⁾ designed to work with the top end of Fujitsu's FR-V family of processors, the FR500. The product is being released today and will be marketed and supported by iDOC.

The IPS2000PS3 is the ultimate embedded software capable of executing all the commands required in a color laser printer for printing tasks, and today, is the most widely used embedded software for laser printers.

The combination of the FR500 Series' compiler⁽²⁾ function with the IPS2000PS3 interpreter results in an FR500 single-chip solution, capable of providing all the image-processing needed in a color laser printer and obviating the need for any ASICs⁽³⁾for image-processing tasks. The result of this development is smaller circuit-board surface areas, lower costs, and shorter development times.

The interpreter⁽⁴⁾ is designed to achieve high-speed color rendering, with roughly double the performance of the processors in existing color laser printers. Also, thanks to Fujitsu's development tools, the programmer is freed from concerns about the specific processor architecture, and can quickly and easily develop large-scale applications.

iDOC already has considerable experience developing and testing the IPS2000PS3 interpreter in the world's leading microprocessor, and the company gave high marks to the compiler used by the FR500 Series for its universality, speed, and reliability.

Using its advanced underlying FR-V microprocessor architecture, so far Fujitsu has developed the high-performance FR500 Series and the low-power FR400 Series. To meet the needs of the expanding market for products that incorporate image processing functions, such as consumer appliances and mobile phones, Fujitsu is actively developing its FR-V family, together with embedded software, to further enhance this line of processors noted for their high performance, compact size, and low power requirements.

Glossary

1 IPS™ 2000PS3 *:

Embedded software for laser printers developed by Oak Technologies of the USA.

About Oak Technologies
Established: 1987 President & CEO: Young K. Sohn
Head office: 1390 Kifer Rd, Sunnyvale CA 94086-5305
Main lines of business: Designing, developing and marketing integrated software and chips, and platform solutions for optical storage and digital imaging, to OEM manufacturers.

2 compiler:

Software that converts a programmer's source code into machine language.

3 ASICs:

Application-specific integrated circuit. Name for a chip that fills a specialized function.

4 interpreter:

A program that interprets a computer language and issues instructions to run a computer.

5 

Millions of floating-point operations per second.

6 

Millions of operations per second

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About iDoc

Founded: 1999
President: Hideki Narui Head office: 7-13-6 Gotanda, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo, Japan
Lines of business: Core technology development for printers and image-processing equipment, providing the latest printing and image-processing technologies to OEM manufacturers. Developing printing software to handle PDF, HTML, XML, and PS formats, and printing solutions for digital-data transmission
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About Fujitsu Microelectronics Asia Pte Ltd (FMAL)

Established in 1986, Fujitsu Microelectronics Asia Pte Ltd (FMAL), a wholly owned subsidiary of Fujitsu Limited (TSE:6702), is a leading provider of microelectronics and flat panel displays (TFT-LCD) in Asia. With Locations in Singapore, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Malaysia, the FMAL team of skilled engineers and marketing experts are uniquely positioned to provide sales and technical support to its customers throughout the Asia Pacific region. FMAL offers the latest in cutting edge technology through an extensive R&D network comprising ASIC Design Centres in Singapore and Shenzhen, China; Application Labs in Singapore and Shanghai; and an MCU/Flash/System Design Centre in Hong Kong.
For more information, please see: www.fmal.fujitsu.com

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