Philips Semiconductors
MPEG2 audio decoder
Objective specification
SAA2503
FUNCTIONAL DESCRIPTION
Operating modes
The SAA2503 can operate in 2 modes.
Stand-alone (mode 4)
In this mode (modC = 1, modB = 0 and modA = 0) the
SAA2503 boots itself from the internal program ROM after
power-up and can start decoding when a decoding mode
has been selected via the I2C-bus.
Booting via the I2C-bus (mode 7)
In this mode (modC = 1, modB = 1 and modA = 1) the
SAA2503 starts executing an internal boot program that
will receive 1536 bytes via the I2C-bus and then write
those to an on-chip program RAM.
This mode allows the standard behaviour (I/O interfaces,
additional processing) to be modified as specified in the
stand-alone mode.
Decoding modes
The SAA2503 has the following decoding modes:
• MPEG decoding (48 kHz DVD; 44.1 kHz VCD) IEC 958
LPCM
• MPEG decoding (48 kHz DVD; 44.1 kHz VCD) IEC 958
BITSTR
• LPCM CD-DA (44.1 kHz)
• LPCM down-sampling DVD (96 kHz: 4 channel input;
48 kHz 2 channel output)
• LPCM DVD (48 kHz: 8 channel input; 2 channel output).
System clock
The preferred system clock to be applied to the EXTAL pin
of the SAA2503 is 27 MHz if booted in mode 4
(stand-alone operation).
The internal PLL multiplies this clock by a factor of 3 to
obtain an 81 MHz internal clock.
If using another external clock frequency it is advisable to
ensure that:
• The internal PLL is disabled during booting when
fclk(ext) > 27 MHz
• That 10 MHz < (fclk(ext) × 3) < 81 MHz.
INTERFACING TO THE A/V SPLITTER
Serial audio interface
The serial audio interface can be configured as an I2S-bus
interface and when required, as Quad I2S interface.
The signal received via the I2S-bus is an encoded audio
bitstream in accordance with IEC 1937, or LPCM.
Table 1 Pinning of the I2S-bus interface
PINS
SDI0
SDI1
SDO0
SDO1
SDO2
SCKR
WSR
SDB
SCKT
WST
DESCRIPTION
high impedance
serial data
serial data
serial data
serial data
I2S-bus clock; notes 1 and 2
word select receive
serial data begin
I2S-bus clock; notes 1 and 2
word select transmit
PIN NUMBER
67
not used
66
input/output
57
output
56
not used
55
not used
61
input
65
input
76
input
59
input
60
input
DIRECTION
Notes
1. SCKT is equal to SCKR when the I2S-bus format is the format of the input signal. When Quad I2S-bus is used
SCKT = 1⁄4SCKR.
2. The maximum allowed clock frequency for SCK is 1⁄3fclk (fclk is the internal clock generated by the PLL of the
SAA2503).
1997 Jul 02
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