PRELIMINARY CUSTOMER PROCUREMENT SPECIFICATION
1
Z90219/213/212/211/218
1
®
Z8 DIGITAL TELEVISION
CONTROLLERS
FEATURES
■ On-Chip Infrared (IR) Capture Registers
■ Four Channel 3-bit Analog-to-Digital Converter
■ Twenty General Purpose I/O Pins
ROM
(KB)
RAM*
(Bytes) Lines
I/O
Voltage
Range
Device
Z90211
Z90218
Z90212
Z90213
Z90219
16 (OTP)
237
237
237
237
237
20
20
20
20
4.5V to 5.5V
4.5V to 5.5V
4.5V to 5.5V
4.5V to 5.5V
8
12
2
■ I C Serial Communication Port)
16
32 (ext.)
N/A 4.5V to 5.5V
On Screen Display (OSD) Section
Note: OTP and Z9021x products under development
■ Supports Displays up to 10 rows by 24 Columns with
Z8-Based CMOS Microcontroller for Consumer
Television, Cable Box, and Satellite Receiver
Applications.
256 Characters
■ Character Cell Resolution of 14 Pixels by 18 Scan lines
■ 42-Pin SDIP Package
■ Variable Inter-row Spacing from 0-15 Horizontal Scan
Lines
®
■ Z8 Microcontroller Core at 6 MHz
■ Foreground
and
Background
Colors
Fully
■ Mask ROM sizes Available in 8, 12 and 16 Kbytes
■ Eleven Pulse Width Modulators
Programmable by Character
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
The Z9021x Digital Television Controller (DTC) family is
Zilog’s latest and most powerful Z8-based DTC product of-
fering. These parts feature larger system RAM and ROM
options, together with a host of new features including a
new color palette system, flexible inter-row spacing, higher
character cell resolution, background mesh effect, dedicat-
ed I.R. capture registers, on-chip Analog-to-Digital conver-
The Z9021x family consists of two basic device types;
Z9020x and Z9021x. The only difference between the two
types is the presence of a hardware I C serial communica-
2
tion port and half-tone OSD circuitry on the Z9021x family.
2
Of course I C communication is supported on the Z9020x
family in software with the dedication of any two I/O pins to
the task.
2
sion, and a hardware Master mode I C interface. The fa-
The Z9021x family takes full advantage of the Z8’s ex-
panded register file space to offer greater flexibility in On
Screen Display creation.
miliar Z8 core in combination with these advanced features
makes the Z9021x family an ideal choice for low to mid-
range televisions in both PAL and NTSC markets.
CP96TEL2400
P R E L I M I N A R Y
1