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Controller

Shown below is the custom ATV receiver controller board.

Embedded Controller  Microchip PIC18F252 flash memory based processor running at 3.6864MHz.

Control LCD Brightness  Conventional potentiometer used to set the 2 x 20 contrast ratio.

RS-232 Driver  TTL to RS-232 interface driver.  Allows the embedded controller to connect to external RS-232 devices.

Reverse Polarity Diode  3 amp Schottky rectifier diode.  The Schottky diode features low drop out voltage (around 0.3 volts) even at higher current levels.

4-Channel DAC  Used to set analog voltage for control of the video LCD brightness, contrast, chroma level (color), and phase (tint).

PIC I/O Extender  Microchip MCP23016 Provides an additional 16-bit of discrete I/O used to control the LCD hardware and S-band receiver.  The PIC 18F252 didn't have enough I/O to drive the 2 x 20 LCD display as well as the other on board devices.




Receiver Controller Board.



Schematic / PCB Layout


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ATV Receiver Controller Schematic ATV Receiver Controller Schematic
Schematic
(Graphic - GIF)
PCB Layout
(Adobe PDF)



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