1997 Jun 24
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Philips Semiconductors
Preliminary specification
TV microcontroller with full screen
On Screen Display (OSD)
SAA5288
Teletext Register 1 (TXT1) - WRITE only
FIELD POLARITY
H POLARITY
V POLARITY
PRD4 to PRD0
VSYNC in first half of the line (logic 0) or second half of the line (logic 1) at start of even field
HSYNC input positive-going (logic 0) or negative-going (logic 1)
VSYNC input positive-going (logic 0) or negative-going (logic 1)
page request data
Teletext Register 4 (TXT4) - WRITE only
EAST/ WEST
DISABLE DBL HGHT
B MESH ENABLE
C MESH ENABLE
TRANS ENABLE
SHADOW ENABLE
western languages selected (logic 0) or Eastern languages selected (logic 1)
disable display of double height teletext control codes (logic 1) in OSD boxes
enable meshing of area with black background (logic 1)
enable meshing of area with other background colours (logic 1)
set black background to transparent i.e. video is displayed (logic 1)
enable south-east shadowing (logic 1)
Teletext Register 5 (TXT5) - WRITE only
BKGND OUT
BKGND IN
COR OUT
COR IN
TEXT OUT
TEXT IN
PICTURE ON OUT
PICTURE ON IN
background colour displayed outside teletext boxes (logic 1)
background colour displayed inside teletext boxes (logic 1)
COR output active outside teletext boxes (logic 1)
COR output active inside teletext boxes (logic 1)
text displayed outside teletext boxes (logic 1)
text displayed inside teletext boxes (logic 1)
video picture displayed outside teletext boxes (logic 1)
video picture displayed inside teletext boxes (logic 1)
Teletext Register 6 (TXT6) - WRITE only
See TXT5
this register has the same meaning as TXT5 but is only invoked if either newsflash (C5) or
subtitle (C6) bit in row 25 of the basic page memory is set
Teletext Register 7 (TXT7) - WRITE only
STATUS ROW TOP
CURSOR ON
REVEAL
TOP/BOTTOM
DOUBLE HEIGHT
BOX ON 24
BOX ON 1-23
BOX ON 0
display row 24 below (logic 0) or above (logic 1) teletext page
display cursor at location pointed to by TXT9 and TXT10 (logic 1)
display characters in areas with the conceal attribute set (logic 1)
display rows 0 to 11 (logic 0) or 12 to 23 (logic 1) when the double height bit is set
display each character as twice normal height (logic 1)
enable teletext boxes in memory row 24 (logic 1)
enable teletext boxes in memory rows 1 to 23 (logic 1)
enable teletext boxes in memory row 0 (logic 1)
REGISTER
FUNCTION