Buenisimo Tincho!
Aca dejo otro circuito facil para Famicom, con un encoder parecido al CXA1645, en este caso es el BH7236AF con un pinout similar al mencionado CXA pero que requiere aun menos componentes externos.
Ademas un par de fotos de aplicacion:
Aplicacion en una Twin Famicom:
Aplicacion en una Famicom clasica, notese que se reemplazo la placa completa de puertos de video y regulador de alimentacion por una solucion casera:
Aca una evaluacion de diferentes encoders:
MC1377P (Very bad...)
CXA1645 (Very good but... out of stock)
BH7236AF (Good but... out of stock)
(I have only 1 piece and I'd like to have at least one of supply in breakdown case)
AD724 (good but... without RGB output)
AD725 (the same as 724)
CXA1645:
-GREAT effective luma trap (pin 17). I find 40pf cap in series with a 100uH inductor gets the best composite picture. This is what Sega did in the Saturn and it was spot on (best resolution with lowest cross color)
-S-Video quality is amazing. The only problem I can find at all is a little bleeding with the reds. But dot crawl is non-existent and pixels look damn sharp. Truly impressive.
THE BAD...
-pin 6...sin wave input is a pain in the ass. I tried using both HC04 and VHC04 (supposively better) but I still get a lot of vertical scaling in the cross color areas (thin lines/boarders). I noticed this changes when I put pressure on the 4.7M resistor?!? I've grounded the crystal thouroughly and bypassed the power lines with .01, .1, and 10uf caps. Still, the oscillations are sparatic....
CXA2075:
-very rare but a (much?) improved CXA1645
-much fewer external components, namely pins 13, 9, etc. are N/C now
-picture supposively much better? (I've never seen one in action)
THE BAD:
said to get very very hot during use and has higher power consumption.
AD724
-NO TLL logic required! works with a simple 3.57 parallel resonant crystal. The cap has to be tested and adjusted correctly but this is a very nice feature.
THE BAD: No luma trap. What was Analog thinking??? It's impossible to get good composite video out of this sucker
AD725:
same as AD724 BUT...
luma trap added and full can crystal input only (TLL logic levels).
THE BAD:
I found the luma trap VERY ineffective (unlike the CXA1645). Almost worthless.
the crystal I used gave a picture with pinkish reds....when adjusting the impedance on the RGB inputs I got it back, but I had to compromise with increased Green+Blue. It just seems this crystal input is very very finicky with coloring.