The PELICAN SAA7112 is a video capture device forapplications at the image port of VGA controllers.The SAA7112 is a combination of a two channel analogpreprocessing circuit including source-selection,anti-aliasing filter and ADC, an automatic clamp and gaincontrol, a Clock Generation Circuit (CGC), a digitalmultistandard decoder and a SAA7140B based scaler,including variable horizontal and vertical up and downscaling and a brightness, contrast and saturation controlcircuit (see Fig.1).It is a highly integrated circuit for desktop videoapplications. The decoder is based on the principle ofline-locked clock decoding and is able to decode the colourof PAL, SECAM and NTSC signals into CCIR-601compatible colour component values. The SAA7112accepts as analog inputs CVBS or S-video (Y-C) from TVor VCR sources, including weak and distorted signals.An Expansion port for digital video (bidirectional halfduplex, D1 compatible) is also supported to connect toMPEG or video phone CODEC. At the so called image portthe SAA7112 supports 8-bit (16-bit) wide output data withauxiliary reference data for interfacing to VGA controllersThe target application for PELICAN is to capture and scalevideo images, to be provided as digital video streamthrough the image port of a VGA controller, for display viaVGAs frame buffer, or for capture to system memory.In parallel the SAA7112 incorporates also provisions forcapturing the serially coded data in the vertical blankinginterval (VBI-data). Two principal functions are available:to capture raw video samples and a versatile data slicer(data recovery) unit.The SAA7112 incorporates also a field locked audio clockgeneration. This function ensures that there is always thesame number of audio samples associated with a field, ora set of fields. This prevents the loss of synchronizationbetween video and audio, during capture or playback.The circuit can be controlled via the I2C-bus or via its fastparallel programming mode of the image port interface (fullwrite/read capability).
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