GENERAL DESCRIPTION

The SAA7283 is a NICAM receiver solution, developing the well established high quality Terrestrial Digital Sound decoder family from Philips Semiconductors.

FEATURES

• Single-chip solution including FM and vision filters, analog demodulator and audio switching

• Dual standard with automatic selection between PAL system I and BGH including French NICAM L system)

• Single low-radiation crystal oscillator for improved EMC

• Stereo bitstream audio DACs

• Programmable attenuator for matching levels of NICAM and FM audio sources at the output of the device

• Full EBU NICAM 728 specification demodulation and decoding

• Digital Audio Interface conforming with EBU/IEC 958

• Automatic mute function which switches from NICAM to FM sound when NICAM fails

• Compatible with either single-ended or differential DQPSK input signals

• Microcomputer controlled via I2C-bus (up to 400 kHz specification).

APPLICATIONS

• Television receivers

• Video cassette recorders.