Destiny Technology Extends Peripheral ASIC Product Family; D8805 Offers "3 in 1 Functionality"; Increases Performance, Reduces Cost in Multifunction Peripherals and Standalone Laser Printers.SANTA CLARA Santa Clara, city, Cuba Santa Clara (sän`tä klä`rä), city (1994 est. pop. 217,000), capital of Villa Clara prov., central Cuba. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 9, 1995--A new ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit) Pronounced "a-sick." A chip that is custom designed for a specific application rather than a general-purpose chip such as a microprocessor. from Destiny Technology Corporation, Santa Clara, Calif., will enable lower cost designs of multifunction peripherals (MFPs) and standalone laser printers. The new D8805 page printer controller ASIC combines the overall functionality of Destiny's D8803, D8804 and D6002 ASICs into one chip. This "3 in 1" approach provides MFP (MultiFunction Printer, MultiFunction Peripheral) See all-in-one and MFD. and laser printer designers with an inexpensive, performance-oriented solution for multi-platform printing environments. Available now from Destiny Technology, pricing for the D8805 is dependent on quantity. Destiny will continue to produce the D6002, the company's "QuickASIC," which is designed for high-performance multiplatform host-based printers. The D8803 (an image modeling ASIC) and the D8804 (an I/O (Input/Output) The transfer of data between the CPU and a peripheral device. Every transfer is an output from one device and an input to another. See PC input/output. I/O - Input/Output ASIC) are replaced by the D8805. The D8805 interfaces directly to Motorola 68000 processors and enables the design of low-cost resident controllers which also support host-based printing A printing system that relies entirely on the host computer to perform all the printer processing. The computer's CPU rasterizes the data, which creates the bitmaps of the printed pages. It also sends commands directly to the print heads. (WinStyler Duo for DOS and Windows printing solutions). The D8805 supports both PC and Macintosh computing platforms (WinStyler Trio) and provides built-in decompression for host-based printing solutions. When operating with host-based interpreters -- e.g. Destiny's WinStyler and QuickStyler -- the D8805 supports 4 to 8 page-per-minute (ppm) MFP and printer engines providing up to 600 dots-per-inch (dpi) resolution. When operating with controller-resident interpreters, the D8805 provides support for up to 10 ppm engines. The D8805 also provides graphic support for PCL/PostScript. Through an innovative design approach which provides separate system and dynamic random access memory Dynamic random access memory (DRAM) is a type of random access memory that stores each bit of data in a separate capacitor within an integrated circuit. Since real capacitors leak charge, the information eventually fades unless the capacitor charge is refreshed periodically. (DRAM) busses, the D8805 allows simultaneous access to input/output (I/O) and DRAM functions thereby improving overall system performance. As part of this design, the D8805 offers programmable wait state control for memory and I/O to enable the utilization, if desired, of less expensive memory options. Other design highlights include support for 72-pin DRAM SIMM, PCMCIA (Personal Computer Memory Card International Association, San Jose, CA, www.pcmcia.org) An international standards body and trade association that was founded in 1989 to establish a standard for connecting peripherals to portable computers. PCMCIA created the PC Card. See PC Card. interface support, a direct engine control interface and a general I/O port for peripheral control. Hard-wired BitBLT support is included to further enhance image rendering as is a bitmap image rotator for faster "landscape" image printing. "When a market place continually demands innovative products to aid in the development of higher performance, and simultaneously lower cost design tools it is up to a company such as Destiny to provide the solution as we have with the D8805," said Gary Cheng, Destiny's president and founder. "The D8805 will bring increased functionality to a new generation of MFP devices while also supporting our customer base of laser printer manufacturers." Incorporated in 1986, Destiny Technology offers the most complete product line of imaging controller technologies to OEMs worldwide at various levels of system integration ranging from PCL (Printer Command Language) The page description language for HP LaserJet printers. It has become a de facto standard used in many printers and typesetters. PCL Level 5, introduced with the LaserJet III in 1990, also supports Compugraphic's Intellifont scalable fonts. , PostScript, GDI (Graphics Device Interface) The traditional programming interface (API) for output in Windows. When an application needs to display or print, it makes a call to a GDI function and sends it the parameters for the object that must be created. , and QuickDraw-compatible interpreters, ASICs and multiple font integration to complete page printer controllers/cartridges. -0- Note to Editors: Destiny and WinStyler are registered trademarks and QuickStyler and QuickASIC are trademarks of Destiny Technology Corporation. PCL is a registered trademark of Hewlett-Packard Company. PostScript is a registered trademark of Adobe Systems Corporation. Macintosh is a registered trademark and QuickDraw is a trademark of Apple Computer Corporation. Windows is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation. 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