
ADV7850 Data Sheet
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STANDARD DEFINITION PROCESSOR
The SDP is capable of decoding a large selection of baseband
video signals in composite, S-Video, and 525i/625i component
formats. The video standards supported by the SDP include
PAL, PAL 60, PAL M, PAL N, PAL NC, NTSC M/J, NTSC 4.43,
and SECAM. The ADV7850 can automatically detect the video
standard and process it accordingly.
The SDP has a 3D temporal comb filter and a five-line adaptive
2D comb filter that gives superior chrominance and luminance
separation when decoding a composite video signal. This highly
adaptive filter automatically adjusts its processing mode according
to the video standard and signal quality with no user intervention
required. The SDP has an IF filter block that compensates for
attenuation in the high frequency chroma spectrum due to a tuner
SAW filter. The SDP has specific luminance and chrominance
parameter controls for brightness, contrast, saturation, and hue.
The ADV7850 implements a patented Adaptive Digital Line
Length Tracking (ADLLT™) algorithm to track varying video
line lengths from sources such as a VCR. ADLLT enables the
ADV7850 to track and decode poor quality video sources (such
as VCRs) and noisy sources (such as tuner outputs, VCR players,
and camcorders). Frame TBC ensures stable clock synchroniza-
tion between the decoder and the downstream devices.
The SDP also contains both a luma transient improvement (LTI)
block and a chroma transient improvement (CTI) block. These
increase the edge rate on the luma and chroma transitions,
resulting in a sharper video image.
The SDP has a Macrovision® detection circuit that allows Type I,
Type II, and Type III Macrovision protection levels. The
decoder is also fully robust to all Macrovision signal inputs.
SDP features include:
• Advanced adaptive 3D comb (using the external DDR2
memory)
• Adaptive 2D five-line comb filters for NTSC and PAL that
give superior chrominance and luminance separation for
composite video
• Full automatic detection and autoswitching of all
worldwide standards (PAL, NTSC, and SECAM)
• Automatic gain control with white peak mode that
ensures the video is always processed without loss of
the video processing range
• Proprietary architecture for locking to weak, noisy, and
unstable sources from VCRs and tuners
• IF filter block that compensates for high frequency luma
attenuation due to tuner SAW filter
• LTI and CTI
• Vertical and horizontal programmable luma peaking filters
• 4× oversampling (54 MHz) for CVBS, and S-Video modes
• Free-run output mode that provides stable timing when no
video input is present or video lock is lost
• Internal color bar test pattern
• Advanced TBC with frame synchronization, which ensures
nominal clock and data for nonstandard input
• Color controls that include hue, brightness, saturation,
and contrast
COMPONENT PROCESSOR
The CP section of the ADV7850 is capable of decoding and
digitizing a wide range of component video formats in any color
space. Component video standards supported by the CP include
525i, 625i, 525p, 625p, 720p, 1080i, 1080p, 1250i, VGA up to
UXGA at 60 Hz, and many other standards.
The any-to-any, 3 × 3 CSC matrix is placed between the analog
front end and the CP section. This enables YPbPr-to-RGB and
RGB-to-YCbCr conversions. Many other standards of color
space can be implemented using the color space converter.
The CP section contains circuitry to enable the detection of
Macrovision encoded YPbPr signals for 525i, 625i, 525p, and
625p. It is designed to be fully robust when decoding these
types of signals.
CP features include:
• 525i, 625i, 525p, 625p, 720p, 1080i, 1080p, and many other
HDTV formats are supported
• Supports 720p at 24 Hz/25 Hz formats
• Manual adjustments including gain (contrast), offset
(brightness), hue, and saturation
• Support for analog component YPbPr and RGB video
formats with embedded synchronization, composite
synchronization, or separate HS and VS
• Any-to-any, 3 × 3 CSC matrix that supports YCbCr-to-
RGB and RGB-to-YCbCr, fully programmable or
preprogrammable configurations
• Synchronization source polarity detector (SSPD) that
determines the source and polarity of the synchronization
signals that accompany the input video
• Macrovision copy protection detection on component
formats (525i, 625i, 525p, and 625p)
• Free-run output mode that provides stable timing when no
video input is present or video lock is lost
• Arbitrary pixel sampling support for nonstandard video
sources
• 170 MHz conversion rate, which supports RGB input
resolutions up to 1600 × 1200 at 60 Hz
• Automatic or manual clamp-and-gain controls for
graphics modes
• 32-phase ADC DLL that allows optimum pixel clock
sampling
• Automatic detection of synchronization source and
polarity by SSPD block
• Standard identification enabled by STDI block
• RGB that can be color space converted to YCbCr and
decimated to a 4:2:2 format for video-centric back-end IC
interfacing