
TMC22x5yA
PRODUCT SPECIFICATION
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Table 10. PAL-M Bruch Blanking Sequence
The frame bit is low for frames 0 and 2 and high for frames 1 
and 3.
PAL Color Frame Bit
The PAL color frame bit is the msb of the field count, FID
2
. 
In NTSC this is always low, as NTSC has only a 4 field se-
quence. For both PAL-I and PAL-M inputs, the PAL color 
frame bit is determined in the same way the frame bit is de-
termined in NTSC, by using the phase of the subcarrier on a 
given pixel and on a given line.
Hue Control
One of two programmable 16 bit system phase offsets can be 
added to the subcarrier oscillator between SAV and EAV. 
The selection is made by the BUFFER pin. This feature 
allows the user to change the picture hue on known frames 
without affecting the burst locked loop.
System Monitoring of the Burst Loop Error
The burst loop error signal is stored once per line in an 8 bit 
register that can be accessed over the microprocessor port. 
This allows the user to check for non-mathematical PAL in-
puts and to the change the decoder architecture from frame-
based to line-based or simple decoder depending on this in-
formation.
Demodulation Low Pass Filter
There are two different demodulation low pass filters that 
can be selected under software. For PAL inputs with normal-
ized subcarrier frequencies greater than 0.3 of the sampling 
frequency, it is recommended you use “demodulator filter 2” 
to stop aliasing of the second harmonic of the demodulation 
chrominance signal and the baseband color difference sig-
nals. Gaussian filters are used for both demodulation filters 
as they have no negative coefficients and therefore have no 
undershoots or overshoots which could cause in-band 
ringing.
Figure 22. Gaussian Low Pass Filters
Figure 23. Gaussian LPF Passband Detail
Bypassing the Chrominance Demodulator
The demodulation of the chrominance signal needs to be 
bypassed when the decoder is processing C
B
C
R
 component 
data or when a YC output is required. The bypass operation 
is controlled by the DMODBY register bit.
Bypassing the Demodulation Low Pass Filter
The demodulation low pass filter needs to be bypassed when 
processing C
B
C
R
 component data or when a YC output is 
required. The C
B
C
R
 data can also be passed through the 
Gaussian filter if the bandwidth needs to be reduced. The 
bypass operation is controlled by the GAUBY register bit.
Chrominance Coring
Chrominance coring, when active, sets the lsbs of the 
chroma channel (below a programmable threshold) to zero.
VMCR
5
 Operation
When VMCR
5
 is HIGH, the decoder will grab one line of 
video in LSTORE1. This effectively removes the comb filter 
from the decoding process, and the comb filter output is 
forced to simple mode.
Internal 
line #
7
258
7
259
7
258
7
259
Burst 
present
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Internal 
frame #
0 or 2
0 or 2
0 or 2
0 or 2
1 or 3
1 or 3
1 or 3
1 or 3
Internal field #
0 or 4
0 or 4
1 or 5
1 or 5
2 or 6
2 or 6
3 or 7
3 or 7
-70
-60
-50
-40
-30
-20
-10
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Normalized Frequency
A
6
Demodulator Filter 1
Demodulator Filter 2
-10
-8
-6
-4
-2
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Normalized Frequency
A
6
Demodulator Filter 1
Demodulator Filter 2