[sdiy] TI Chip : TSP5220CNL

[Tom Arnold]

On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 03:48:42PM -0800, Neil Bradley wrote:
> Tom Arnold wrote:
> >Any chance someone has some TI data books from the 90's that might have the
> >TSP5220CNL listed in it? TI says it was discontinued in 2001 and all data
> >was purged from the archives ( now thats usefull of them isnt it ).  I know
> >it was made as far back as '87 from the datecode.
> 
> Sounds like an earlier variant of the TMS5220. I've written an emulator for 
> one. What would you like to know about it?

Actually the TMS5220 was the earlier chip ( 70's vintage ).  Supposedly the
TSP has an onboard 8bit CPU and in some varients could actually do text to
speech with no extra support circuitry ( speech rom on board and the like ).   
Data on the TMS5220 is fairly easy to find...

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