el4581 Intersil Corporation, el4581 Datasheet - Page 8

• Manufacturer Part Number: el4581
• Description: Sync Separator, 50% Slice, S-h, Filter
• Manufacturer: Intersil Corporation

Description of Operation
A simplified block schematic is shown in Figure 2. The follow-
ing description is intended to provide the user with sufficient
information to be able to understand the effects that the
external components and signal conditions have on the out-
puts of the integrated circuit.
The video signal is AC coupled to pin 2 via the capacitor C
nominally 0.1µF. The clamp circuit A1 will prevent the input
signal on pin 2 going any more negative than 1.5V, the value
of reference voltage V
tive part of the video waveform, will be clamped at 1.5V. The
current source I
capacitor during the remaining portion of the H line, approxi-
mately 58µs for a 15.75kHz timebase. From I • t = C • V, the
video time-constant can be calculated. It is important to note
that the charge taken from the capacitor during video must
be replaced during the sync tip time, which is much shorter,
(ratio of x 12.5). The corresponding current to restore the
charge during sync will therefore be an order of magnitude
higher, and any resistance in series with C
tip crushing. For this reason, the internal series resistance
has been minimized and external high resistance values in
series with the input coupling capacitor should be avoided.
The user can exercise some control over the value of the
input time constant by introducing an external pull-up resis-
tance from pin 2 to the 5V supply. The maximum voltage
across the resistance will be V
For a net discharge current greater than zero, the resistance
should be greater than 450k. This will have the effect of
increasing the time constant and reducing the degree of pic-
ture tilt. The current source I
current I
explained later.
The signal is processed through an active 3 pole filter (F1)
designed for minimum ripple with constant phase delay. The
filter attenuates the color burst by 24dB and eliminates fast
transient spikes without sync crushing. An external filter is
not necessary. The filter also amplifies the video signal by
6dB to improve the detection accuracy. Note that the filter
cut-off frequency is a function of R
proportional to I
Internal reference voltages (block V
to supply voltage variation are derived on the chip. Refer-
ence V
of 1.7V nominal. Consequently, it can be seen that the exter-
nal resistance R
current I
much less than R
chip are referenced to I
rejection.
Comparator C2 on the input to the sample and hold block
(S/H) compares the leading and trailing edges of the sync.
pulse with a threshold voltage V
R4
TR
TR
with op-amp A2 forces pin 6 to a reference voltage
. The internal resistance R3 is only about 6kΩ,
and thus increases with scan rate adjustment, as
1
OT
SET
, nominally 10µA, charges the coupling
SET
.
will determine the value of the reference
. All the internal timing functions on the
R1
TR
. Thus the sync tip, the most nega-
and have excellent supply voltage
1
8
directly tracks reference
DD
R2
less 1.5V, for black level.
SET
which is referenced at a
REF
through I
) with high immunity
I
will cause sync
OT
and is
1
,
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fixed level above the clamp voltage V
initiates the timing one-shots for gating the sample and hold
circuits. The sample of the sync tip is delayed by 0.8µs to
enable the actual sample of 2µs to be taken on the optimum
section of the sync. pulse tip. The acquisition time of the cir-
cuit is about three horizontal lines. The double poly CMOS
technology enables long time constants to be achieved with
small high quality on-chip capacitors. The back porch voltage
is similarly derived from the trailing edge of sync, which also
serves to cut off the tip sample if the gate time exceeds the
tip period. Note that the sample and hold gating times will
track RSET through I
The 50% level of the sync tip is derived, through the resistor
divider R1 and R2, from the sample and held voltages V
and V
This comparator has built in hysteresis to avoid false trigger-
ing. The output of C2 is a digital 5V signal which feeds the
C/S output buffer B1 and the other internal circuit blocks, the
vertical, back porch and odd/even functions.
The vertical circuit senses the C/S edges and initiates an
integrator which is reset by the shorter horizontal sync pulses
but times out the longer vertical sync. pulse widths. The
internal timing circuits are referenced to I
time-out period being inversely proportional to the timing cur-
rent. The vertical output pulse is started on the first serration
pulse in the vertical interval and is then self-timed out. In the
absence of a serration pulse, an internal timer will default the
start of vertical.
The back porch is triggered from the sync tip trailing edge
and initiates a one-shot pulse. The period of this pulse is
again a function of I
set by R
The odd/even circuit (O/E) comprises of flip flops which track
the relationship of the horizontal pulses to the leading edge
of the vertical output, and will switch on every field at the start
of vertical. Pin 7 is high during the odd field.
Loss of video signal can be detected by monitoring the C/S
output. The 50% level of the previous video signal will remain
held on the S/H capacitors after the input video signal has
gone and the input on pin 2 has defaulted to the clamp volt-
age. Consequently the C/S output will remain low longer than
the normal vertical pulse period. An external timing circuit
could be used to detect this condition.
BP
SET
, and applied to the plus input of comparator C1.
.
OT
OT
and will therefore track the scan rate
.
R1
. The output of C2
OT
and V
R3
, the
TIP