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REV. 1.1.3 10/25/00
Features
 50 MHz (20ns) pipelined throughput
 3 Simultaneous 12-bit input and output channels 
(64 Giga {236} colors)
 Two's complement inputs and outputs
 Overflow headroom available in lower resolution
 10-bit user-defined coefficients
 TTL compatible input and output signals
 Full precision internal calculation
 Output rounding
 On-board coefficient memory
 Submicron CMOS process
Applications
 Translation between component color standards (RGB, 
YIQ, YUV, etc.)
 Broadcast composite color encoding and decoding (all 
standards)
 Broadcast composite color standards conversion and 
transcoding
 Camera tube and monitor phosphor colorimetry 
correction
 White balancing and color-temperature conversion
 Image capture, processing and storage
 Color matching between systems, cameras and monitors
 Three-dimensional perspective translation
Description
A 50-MHz, three-channel, 36 bit (three 12-bit components) 
colorspace converter and color corrector, the TMC2272A 
uses 9 parallel multipliers to process high-resolution imagery 
in real time.
The TMC2272A also operates at any slower clock rate and 
with any smaller data path width, allowing it to handle all 
broadcast and consumer camera, frame-grabber, encoder/
decoder, recorder and monitor applications as well as most 
electronic imaging applications.
A complete set of three 12-bit samples is processed on every 
clock cycle, with a five-cycle pipeline latency.  Full 23-bit 
(for each of three components) internal precision is provided 
with 10-bit user-defined coefficients.  The coefficients may be 
varied dynamically, with three new coefficients loaded every 
clock cycle.  (The full set of nine can be replaced in three clock 
cycles.)  Rounding to 12 bits per component is performed only 
at the final output.  This allows full accuracy with correct 
rounding and overflow headroom for applications that require 
less than 12 bits per component.
The TMC2272A is fabricated in a submicron CMOS process 
and performance is guaranteed over the full operating tem-
perature range.  It is available in a 120-pin Plastic Pin Grid 
Array (PPGA) package, 120-pin Ceramic Pin Grid Array 
(CPGA), 120-pin MQFP to PGA package, and 120-pin 
Plastic Quad FlatPack (PQFP) in three speed grades.
Logic Symbol
A
11-0
B
11-0
C
11-0
X
11-0
Y
11-0
Z
11-0
KA
11-0
KB
11-0
KC
11-0
CSEL
1-0
CLK
TMC2272A
Colorspace Converter
D
D
C
I
TMC2272A
Digital Colorspace Converter
36 Bit Color, 50 MHz