The SAA7118 is a multistandard comb filter video decoder supporting various applications to capture analog video; it includes digitizing of component formats Y-PB-PR and RGB, and is providing high quality, optionally scaled video.
The SAA7118 is a combination of a four-channel analog preprocessing circuit including source selection, anti-aliasing filter and Analog-to-Digital Converter (ADC) with succeeding decimation filters from 27 MHz to 13.5 MHz data rate. Each preprocessing channel comes with an automatic clamp and gain control. The SAA7118 combines a Clock Generation Circuit (CGC), a digital multistandard decoder containing two-dimensional chrominance/luminance separation by an adaptive comb filter and a high performance scaler, including variable horizontal and vertical up and downscaling and a brightness, contrast and saturation control circuit.
It is a highly integrated circuit for desktop video and similar applications. The decoder is based on the principle of line-locked clock decoding and is able to decode the color of PAL, SECAM and NTSC signals into ITU 601 compatible color component values. The SAA7118 accepts CVBS or S-video (Y/C) as analog inputs from TV or VCR sources, including weak and distorted signals as well as baseband component signals Y-PB-PR or RGB. An expansion port (X port) for digital video (bidirectional half duplex, D1 compatible) is also supported to connect to MPEG or a video phone codec. At the so called image port (I port) the SAA7118 supports 8-bit or 16-bit wide output data with auxiliary reference data for interfacing to VGA controllers.
The target application for the SAA7118 is to capture and scale video images, to be provided as a digital video stream through the image port of a VGA controller, for capture to system memory, or just to provide digital baseband video to any picture improvement processing.
The SAA7118 also provides a means for capturing the serially coded data in the Vertical Blanking Interval (VBI) data. Two principal functions are available:
- To capture raw video samples, after interpolation to the required output data rate, via the scaler
- A versatile data slicer (data recovery) unit
The SAA7118 also incorporates field-locked audio clock generation. This function ensures that there is always the same number of audio samples associated with a field, or a set of fields. This prevents the loss of synchronization between video and audio during capture or playback.
All of the ADCs may be used to digitize a Vestigial Side Band (VSB) signal for subsequent decoding; a dedicated output port and a selectable VSB clock input is provided.
The circuit is I2C-bus controlled (full write/read capability for all programming registers, bit rate up to 400 kbit/s).