GENERAL DESCRIPTION

The SAA5264 is a single-chip ten page 625-line World System Teletext decoder with a high-level command interface, and is SAFARI compatible.

FEATURES

The following features apply to both SAA5264 and SAA5265:

• Complete 625 line teletext decoder in one chip reduces printed circuit board area and cost

• Automatic detection of transmitted fastext links or service information (packet 8/30)

• On-Screen Display (OSD) for user interface menus using teletext and dedicated menu icons

• Video Programming System (VPS) decoding

• Wide Screen Signalling (WSS) decoding

• Pan-European, Cyrillic, Greek/Turkish and French/Arabic character sets in each chip

• High-level command interface via I2C-bus gives easy control with a low software overhead

• High-level command interface is backward compatible to Stand-Alone Fastext And Remote Interface (SAFARI)

• 625 and 525 line display

• RGB interface to standard colour decoder ICs, current source

• Versatile 8-bit open-drain Input/Output (I/O) expander, 5 V tolerant

• Single 12 MHz crystal oscillator

• 3.3 V supply voltage.

SAA5264 features

• Automatic detection of transmitted pages to be selected by page up and page down

• 8 Page fastext decoder

• Table Of Pages (TOP) decoder with Basic Top Table (BTT) and Additional Information Tables (AITs)

• 4 Page user-defined list mode.