STV5730A
FUNCTIONAL DESCRIPTION
The STV5730A operates in ”mixed mode” or ”full
page mode” :
- Mixed mode : the device is line locked to the
incoming CVBS signal. The text is superimposed
over the CVBS input eitherin B&W or translucent.
It may also be superimposed in color by using the
R/G/B outputs.
- Full page mode : the device generates a colored
PAL or NTSC CVBS output and simultaneous
R/G/B outputs. Both ”normal full page” and
”video full page” modes are supported by the
STV5730A. In the ”normal full page” the screen
background is uniformely colored, while the
”video full page” mode permits to display the
unlocked VIDEO IN signal in the screen back-
ground area.
It performs the following text features :
- Page composition : 11 rows X 28 characters
- Number of displayed characters : 308 (max)
- Character composition : 12 dots X 18 lines
- ROM character set : 128 user definable characters
- Screen display positions : 58 horizontal positions,
63 vertical positions
- Row position offset , each row : Xoffset from 0 to
+15, Yoffset from -17 to +17
- Display enable : each row or page
- Character color : 1 out of 8, each character
- Character background color : 1 out of 8, charac-
ter and page enabled or set identical to character
color
- Character border color : 1 out of 8, row enabled
or set identical to character color
- Page background color : 1 out of 8
- Zoom : 3 independant zoom factors for rows 0,
1 to 9 and 10.
- Zoom factors : four independant X and Y zoom
factors
- Blink : character and page enabled
- Blink frequency : 0.5 or 1.0 second
- Blink duty cycle : 0.25, 0.5 or 0.75
1 - THE INTERNAL RAM BUFFER
It stores the page (i.e. the text definition) and the row attributes.
1.1 - Page
The page includes 11 row buffers, numbered from 0 to 10. Each row buffer includes 28 characters,
numbered from 0 to 27. The characters may be written one by one by the microprocessor for random
access. They also may be written sequentially, starting with any character address.
1.2 - Character Format and Attributes
11
10
9
8
7
6
0
BE
R
G
B
BK
CHARACTER CODE
CHARACTER CODE : 1 character out of 128 from the character ROM
BK
: BK=0 : character blink disabled
BK=1 : character blink enabled
R/G/B
: Character color :
000 black
001 blue
010 green
011 cyan
100 red
101 magenta
110 yellow
111 white
BE
: BE=0 : the character background is disabled
BE=1 : the character background is enabled
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