Orion Chip

[Jake86us]

Hey ya'll!! I hope this is in the right forum, But I have an Orion OEC0015C chip that i can't find any info on. Does anyone know what that IC does? It's a 64-pin DIP chip. It can out of a VCR. I'm thinking it might be a video processor of some sort.


thanks for any help you may have!!
Jake

[wraper]

At best you could try to find schematics of particular VCR and figure it out. You won't find any datasheet on the IC itsef.

[tszaboo]

Orion used to be a Hungarian A/V company. They made ICs and the semiconductor part was bought by Philips, later NXP. This might help tracking down a datasheet.

[Jake86us]

At best you could try to find schematics of particular VCR and figure it out. You won't find any datasheet on the IC itsef.

yeah I could, but the only problem is I don't remember what brand the VCR was made by or the model number. I took it apart years ago. Ill I have was the circuit boards. So I guess i'm screwed!!!

[janekm]

At best you could try to find schematics of particular VCR and figure it out. You won't find any datasheet on the IC itsef.

yeah I could, but the only problem is I don't remember what brand the VCR was made by or the model number. I took it apart years ago. Ill I have was the circuit boards. So I guess i'm screwed!!!

What's the point of having the data sheet for an IC that you won't be able to get more of, and for a device that you already took to pieces years ago, and can't get the schematics of? 

[Zero999]

What's the point of having the data sheet for an IC that you won't be able to get more of, and for a device that you already took to pieces years ago, and can't get the schematics of? 

Curiosity?

[Jake86us]

Mainly just wanted to know what it did, I have desoldered the chip so the chip it still good, just don't know what it is or does!!

[miguelvp]

This site says it's a 240-Pin unbuffered DDR2 SDRAM Modules which makes no sense since it's a DIP-64
http://www.tradeofic.com/stock-OEC0015C.html

This one says in the description that it is an ACT16861 that can be used as two 10-bit transceivers or one 20-bit transceiver.
http://www.seekchip.com/icstock-O/OEC0015C.html

The ACT16861 is a 56-SSOP which is closer.

But most likely is something else.

Seems like the absence of a datasheet might indicate it's really a knock off for a well known manufacturer.

The good thing is that you can buy more, since they seem to be available from a lot of Chinese distributors but no one has a datasheet nor even a description of what they do.

[amyk]

The good thing is that you can buy more, since they seem to be available from a lot of Chinese distributors but no one has a datasheet nor even a description of what they do.

Those are likely old stock that's been sitting in a warehouse for years, or pulls from recycled VCRs.

I found http://www.belielektronik.rs/document/ICKOLA.pdf which suggests it's an MCU. Then I found an image of the IC, http://www.battery-shop.com.pl/images/oec%200015%20dem..jpg , and noticed that "614042" text at the bottom... reminds me of Hitachi part numbering.

And sure enough, the HD614042 is a 4-bit mask-ROM MCU in a DIP64 package.

[Jake86us]

The good thing is that you can buy more, since they seem to be available from a lot of Chinese distributors but no one has a datasheet nor even a description of what they do.

Those are likely old stock that's been sitting in a warehouse for years, or pulls from recycled VCRs.

I found http://www.belielektronik.rs/document/ICKOLA.pdf which suggests it's an MCU. Then I found an image of the IC, http://www.battery-shop.com.pl/images/oec%200015%20dem..jpg , and noticed that "614042" text at the bottom... reminds me of Hitachi part numbering.

And sure enough, the HD614042 is a 4-bit mask-ROM MCU in a DIP64 package.

I think it might be a nock-off of the hitachi HD614042!! Thanks guys for the help!!!

[N2IXK]

Yes, about the only 64 pin DIP you would see in a VCR would be the main microcontroller. Fairly useless for anything else, as they are mask programmed for that specific model VCR.