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74ACT715•74ACT715-R
ADDRDEC LOGIC
The ADDRDEC logic decodes the current address and
generates the enable signal for the appropriate register.
The enable values for the registers and counters change
on the falling edge of LOAD. Two types of ADDRDEC logic
is enabled by 2 pair of addresses, Addresses 22 or 54
(Vectored Restart logic) and Addresses 23 or 55 (Vectored
Clear logic). Loading these addresses will enable the
appropriate logic and put the part into either a Restart (all
counter registers are reinitialized with preprogrammed
data) or Clear (all registers are cleared to zero) state.
Reloading the same ADDRDEC address will not cause any
change in the state of the part. The outputs during these
states are frozen and the internal CLOCK is disabled.
Clocking the part during a Vectored Restart or Vectored
Clear state will have no effect on the part. To resume oper-
ation in the new state, or disable the Vectored Restart or
Vectored Clear state, another non-ADDRDEC address
must be loaded. Operation will begin in the new state on
the rising edge of the non-ADDRDEC load pulse. It is rec-
ommended that an unused address be loaded following an
ADDRDEC operation to prevent data registers from acci-
dentally being corrupted. The following Addresses are
used by the device.
Address 0 Status Register REG0
Address 1–18Data Registers REG1–REG18
Address 19–21Unused
Address 22/54Restart Vector (Restarts Device)
Address 23/55Clear Vector (Zeros All Registers)
Address 24–31Unused
Address 32–50Register Scan Addresses
Address 51–53Counter Scan Addresses
Address 56–63Unused
At any given time only one register at most is selected. It is
possible to have no registers selected.
VECTORED RESTART ADDRESS
The function of addresses 22 (16H) or 54 (36H) are similar
to that of the CLR pin except that the preprogramming of
the registers is not affected. It is recommended but not
required that this address is read after the initial device
configuration load sequence. A 1 on the ADDRDATA pin
(Auto Addressing Mode) will not cause this address to
automatically increment. The address will loop back onto
itself regardless of the state of ADDRDATA unless the
address on the Data inputs has been changed with
ADDRDATA at 0.
VECTORED CLEAR ADDRESS
Addresses 23 (17H) or 55 (37H) is used to clear all regis-
ters to zero simultaneously. This function may be desirable
to use prior to loading new data into the Data or Status
Registers. This address is read into the device in a similar
fashion as all of the other registers. A 1 on the ADDRDATA
pin (Auto Addressing Mode) will not cause this address to
automatically increment. The address will loop back onto
itself regardless of the state of ADDRDATA unless the
address on the Data inputs has been changed with
ADDRDATA at 0.
FIGURE 4. ADDRDEC Timing
GEN LOCKING
The ACT715 and ACT715-R is designed for master SYNC
and BLANK signal generation. However, the devices can
be synchronized (slaved) to an external timing signal in a
limited sense. Using Vectored Restart, the user can reset
the counting sequence to a given location, the beginning,
at a given time, the rising edge of the LOAD that removes
Vector Restart. At this time the next CLOCK pulse will be
CLOCK 1 and the count will restart at the beginning of the
first odd line.
Preconditioning the part during normal operation, before
the desired synchronizing pulse, is necessary. However,
since LOAD and CLOCK are asynchronous and indepen-
dent, this is possible without interruption or data and perfor-
mance corruption. If the defaulted 14.31818 MHz RS-170
values are being used, preconditioning and restarting can
be minimized by using the CLEAR pulse instead of the
Vectored Restart operation. The ACT715-R is better suited
for this application because it eliminates the need to pro-
gram a 1 into Bit 10 of the Status Register to enable the
CLOCK. Gen Locking to another count location other than
the very beginning or separate horizontal/vertical resetting
is not possible with the ACT715 nor the ACT715-R.
SCAN MODE LOGIC
A scan mode is available in the ACT715 that allows the
user to non-destructively verify the contents of the regis-
ters. Scan mode is invoked through reading a scan
address into the address register. The scan address of a
given register is defined by the Data register address + 32.
The internal Clocking signal is disabled when a scan
address is read. Disabling the clock freezes the device in
it's present state. Data can then be serially scanned out of
the data registers through the ODD/EVEN Pin. The LSB
will be scanned out first. Since each register is 12 bits wide,
completely scanning out data of the addressed register will
require 12 CLOCK pulses. More than 12 CLOCK pulses on
the same register will only cause the MSB to repeat on the
output. Re-scanning the same register will require that reg-
ister to be reloaded. The value of the two horizontal
counters and 1 vertical counter can also be scanned out by
using address numbers 51–53. Note that before the part
will scan out the data, the LOAD signal must be brought
back HIGH.
Normal device operation can be resumed by loading in a
non-scan address. As the scanning of the registers is a
non-destructive scan, the device will resume correct opera-
tion from the point at which it was halted.
