Marvell continues to expand its leadership in printing industry with groundbreaking 64-bit dual-core SoC platform

As an industry leader in the field of printing SoCs, Marvell's 88PA6220 has a page description language (PDL) rendering capability of more than 140 pages per minute (ppm), setting a new performance standard for mainstream products. In addition, this printer SoC makes Marvell's printer product line more complete and more cost-effective than the previously launched 88PA6270 (88PA6270 is a high-performance 4-core SoC for the enterprise printer/MFP market). These advanced technical innovations further establish Marvell's leading edge in printer technology and once again demonstrate Marvell's consistent commitment to driving the industry forward with new performance, lower solution costs and the fastest time to market.

The 88PA6220 will be available in some of the industry's fastest, highest quality, and most popular MFPs and copiers, supporting a wide range of printing technologies including inkjet, laser, and LED. The 88PA6220 development kit includes a hardware evaluation board and the same software development kit (SDK) as the 88PA6270.

" The 88PA6220 joins Marvell's market-leading printer SoC family, setting a new standard for performance and integration for the industry, " said Mark Montierth, vice president and general manager of Marvell's Custom Computing Solutions business unit. "The 88PA6220's advanced features and unprecedented system integration demonstrate Marvell's commitment to maintaining its market leadership and delivering innovative technology to our customers. The 88PA6220's powerful expansion capabilities, including integrated PCIe, USB3 and the new 8Gb/s per lane MoChi interface, enable a single printer platform to scale to multiple products, and the 88PA6220's new capabilities give customers confidence that it will meet their technology needs today and into the future."

The 88PA6220 development kit provides a fully tested hardware development environment, a complete Linux software development kit, detailed documentation and application guides, reference designs, a comprehensive wireless networking solution portfolio, power management ICs, consumables security systems, and code security systems. This kit helps customers easily develop complete, fully functional, high-performance, and cost-effective products.

The 88PA6220 sets new performance standards for the printer industry:

28nm LP process technology.

Dual-core ARM Cortex A53 (ARMv8 64-bit) processor with 256KB L2 cache.

·Over 140 pages per minute when rendering 600 dpi color pages using the Global Graphics® PDL interpreter and the J11.ppt industry standard performance test file.

Dedicated dual-channel imaging hardware pipeline. The pipeline is configurable but always runs at an ultra-fast 2 million pixels/second.

Two JBIG codecs + two JBIG decoders + 1 JPEG codec.

Hardware building blocks provide image sensor error calibration and correction, image quality optimization, compression/decompression, and native support for duplex scanning and copying.

Powerful Vivante® GC400LT GPU supports fast, smooth 2D/3D graphics.

Three additional 32-bit ARM CPUs for user customization, real-time mechanism control, low-power standby and co-processor functions.

Dedicated Direct Engine Control (DEC) hardware provides real-time control of key printer functions such as laser video signals or LED arrays, laser scanners, fuser rollers, motors, sensors, and CIS scanner control.

MoChi technology offers new design flexibility:

Marvell's MoChi technology and the growing MoChi Southbridge chip family provide product designers with unprecedented product design flexibility. As new I/O standards emerge, the family continues to add new Southbridge chips, and OEMs can use the 88PA6220 and these chips at the same time. Marvell's MoChi architecture reduces costs and provides scalable functionality for different price points.

Providing complete solutions:

The 88PA6220 has built-in security hardware to authenticate and monitor consumables, and works seamlessly with the Marvell PA810, an advanced, cost-effective chip for securing consumables.

The platform and SDK support 802.11a/b/g/n/ac, NFC, 802.3 (GbE), and Bluetooth 4.0 advanced connectivity features.

Integrated advanced connectivity:

Scalability through Marvell MoChi technology to add new connectivity capabilities

·1 x 1 PCIe。

Two USB 2.0 ports and one USB 3.0 port.

GbE networking, including Marvell's advanced PHY.

· Three Serial Control Channel Processors (SCCPs). Each SCCP interface is programmable to emulate an industry-standard serial interface or a customer-specific serial protocol.

Multiple eMMC/SDIO, SPI, UART, I2S, SPI, OWI, ADC and Audio DDAC.

Support LCD via parallel or LVDS.

World-class security systems include:

Hardware authentication, encryption, and decryption for industry-standard protocols such as AES, 3DES, RC4, SHA256, SHA1, and MD5.

Implement chain of trust for secure boot.

Provide hardware support for Marvell PA810 consumable security chip.

Hardware compatibility test.

Low power operation:

28nm LP process technology.

Power islands and clock gating minimize power consumption.

Intelligent activity monitoring.

Exceeds stringent ENERGY STAR® and other regional low-power standards.

The 88PA6220 further expands Marvell’s printer SoC family, which now includes the 88PA6270, 88PA6220 and 88PA6110. The SoC is sampling to customers and will be in production in the fourth quarter of 2016.