The Philips Semiconductors arm of Philips Electronics NV has introduced the SAA7116, YUV video bus to Peripheral Component Interconnect Bus interface chip to support instantaneous live video display from any analogue video source directly onto the graphics monitor. The SAA7116 interfaces directly with the existing Philips family of digital PAL, NTSC and SECAM television standard video decoders devices including the SAA716, SAA7110 and SAA7151B. By combining the new device with the SAA7196, the video image can be scaled to any size on the screen, stored on a hard drive or sent to the CPU for compression, manipulation or processing before storage. The SAA7116 is a video capture chip that serves as an interface between the Philips video capture chip set and the PCI bus. The digitised video, which can be filtered, scaled and translated by the SAA 7196, is presented to the SAA7116 in one of three formats: RGB 5:5:5, YUV 4:2:2, or RGB 8:8:8. The SAA7116 is both a PCI bus master and slave. It operates in master mode to transfer data across the PCI bus and operates in slave mode to program local registers. The SAA7116 generates I2C control for the rest of the Philips’ video chip set. No prices given.
