The integrated controller (SCC) provides the majority of the electronics necessary to build a thermal or thermal transfer facsimile machine integrated into a one-chip solution. The controller performs primary facsimile control/monitoring and compression/decompression functions, and interfaces with fax machine components such as a scanner, printer, motor, and operator control panel. The MC24 embedded processor provides an external 16-MB direct memory access capability. An integrated Pipeline ADC, combined with Conexant's Image Processing Scheme, provides state of the art image processing performance on text and gray scale images.