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This version: Jan. 1998
Previous version: Dec. 1996
¡ Semiconductor
MSM518221
¡ Semiconductor
MSM518221
262,214-Word ¥ 8-Bit Field Memory
DESCRIPTION
The OKI MSM518221 is a high performance 2-Mbit, 256K ¥ 8-bit, Field Memory. It is designed for
high-speedserialaccessapplicationssuchasHDTVs,conventionalNTSCTVs,VTRs,digitalmovies
and Multi-media systems. The 2-Mbit capacity fits one field of a conventional NTSC TV screen.
Each of the 8-bit planes has separate serial write and read ports. These employ independent control
clockstosupportasynchronousreadandwriteoperations. Differentclockratesarealsosupported,
which allow alternate data rates between write and read data streams.
TheMSM518221provideshighspeedFIFO,First-InFirst-Out,operationwithoutexternalrefreshing:
it refreshes its DRAM storage cells automatically, so that it appears fully static to the users.
Moreover, fully static type memory cells and decoders for serial access enable the refresh free serial
access operation, so that serial read and/or write control clock can be halted high or low for any
durationaslongasthepowerison. Internalconflictsofmemoryaccessandrefreshingoperations
are prevented by special arbitration logic.
The MSM518221's function is simple, and similar to a digital delay device whose delay-bit-length is
easily set by reset timing. The delay length, and the number of read delay clocks between write and
read, is determined by externally controlled write and read reset timings.
AdditionalSRAMserialregisters, orlinebuffersfortheinitialaccessof256¥8-bitenablehighspeed
first-bit-access with no clock delay just after the write or read reset timings.
TheMSM518221issimilarinoperationandfunctionalitytoOKI1-MbitFieldMemoryMSM514221B.
Ithasawritemaskfunctionorinputenablefunction(IE), andread-dataskippingfunctionoroutput
enablefunction(OE). Thedifferencesbetweenwriteenable(WE)andinputenable(IE),andbetween
read enable (RE) and output enable (OE) are that WE and RE can stop serial write/read address
increments, butIEandOEcannotstoptheincrement, whenwrite/readclockingiscontinuously
appliedtoMSM518221.Theinputenable(IE)functionallowstheusertowriteintoselectedlocations
of the memory only, leaving the rest of the memory contents unchanged. This facilitates data
processing to display a "picture in picture" on a TV screen.
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