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- From: nagle@netcom.com (John Nagle)
- Subject: Re: How would you detect lack of a square wave?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan2.184455.14930@netcom.com>
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- References: <1993Jan2.172332.21070@socrates.umd.edu>
- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 18:44:55 GMT
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- jimbo@socrates.umd.edu (Jim Bogard) writes:
- >What's the best way to detect the presence/lack of a square wave?
- >I'm trying to build a 'valid video present' indicator, and I have
- >some chip I got from DIGI-KEY (number not handy) which strips
- >horiz/vert sync and provides them seperately. Now I'm wrestling
- >with the problem of getting a TTL out from the mess indicating
- >what's going on. Anybody got any ideas? Or is there perhaps a
- >chip which will do this for me and I'm being stupid?
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- I'd check the current National Semiconductor catalog; they have
- a line of video sync extractors. The ones in the 1989 book don't have
- a "valid video output" pin, though. You do need that; most sync extractors
- produce reasonable sync outputs even when no input is present, since
- TV sets aren't usually designed to stop sweeping when no signal is present.
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- You could also get a color decoder IC; those usually have a pin which
- indicates whether a color burst is present. That's usually a solid indication
- that a valid color TV signal is present.
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- John Nagle
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