
1996 Jan 17
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Philips Semiconductors
Preliminary specication
I2C-bus controlled, alignment-free
PAL/NTSC/SECAM decoder/sync processor
TDA9143
When the controller is in the NEAR_NORM state it will
move to the COUNT state if it detects the vertical sync
pulse within the NEAR_NORM window (i.e.
622 < LC < 628). If no vertical sync pulse is detected the
controller will move back to the COUNT state when the line
counter reaches LC = 628. The line counter will then be
reset.
When the controller is in the NO_NORM state, it will move
to the COUNT state when it detects a vertical sync pulse
and reset the line counter. If a vertical sync pulse is not
detected before LC = 722 (if the
1 loop is locked in forced
mode) it will move to the COUNT state and reset the line
counter. If the
1 loop is not locked the controller will return
to the COUNT state when LC = 628.
The forced mode option keeps the controller in either the
left-hand side (60 Hz) or the right-hand side (50 Hz) of the
state diagram.
Figure 6 illustrates the state diagram of the norm counter
which is an up/down counter that increases its counter
value by 1 if it finds a vertical sync pulse within the selected
window. If not, it decreases the counter value by 1 (or 2,
see Fig.6). In the NEAR_NORM and NORM states the first
correct vertical sync pulse after one or more incorrect
vertical sync pulses is processed as an incorrect pulse.
This procedure prevents the system from staying in the
NEAR_NORM or NORM state if the vertical sync pulse is
correct in the first field and incorrect in the second field.
In case of no sync lock (SLN = 1) the norm counter is reset
to NO_NORM (wide search window), for fast vertical
catching when switching between video sources. Fast
switching between different channels however can still
result in a continuous horizontal sync lock situation, when
the channel is changed before the norm counter has
reached the NORM state. To provide faster vertical
catching in this case, measures have been taken to
prevent the norm counter to count down to zero before
reaching the NO_NORM state (see left-hand of Fig.6). Bus
bit FWW (forced wide window) enables the norm counter
to stay in the NO_NORM state if desired. The
norm/no_norm status is read out by bus bit NRM.
Fig.6 State diagram of the norm counter.
(1) VSP found: count 1 up; no VSP found: count 2 down.
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MGE041
NORM
NO
NORM
NEAR
NORM
NEAR
NORM
NEAR
NORM
22
< NC ≤ 27
0
≤ NC < 12
10
< NC < 26(1)
10
< NC < 17
0
< NC < 14
NC = 26
NC = 17
NC = 14
NC
=
10
(RESET
NC)
NC
=
10
(RESET
NC)
NC = 22
NC = 0
NC = 12
(RESET NC)
norm test area
near_norm test area