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Title: Orion Chip
Post by: Jake86us on September 11, 2014, 04:19:17 pm
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
Title: Re: Orion Chip
Post by: wraper on September 11, 2014, 05:08:38 pm
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.
Title: Re: Orion Chip
Post by: tszaboo on September 11, 2014, 11:03:28 pm
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.
Title: Re: Orion Chip
Post by: Jake86us on September 13, 2014, 03:26:38 pm
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!!! :-//
Title: Re: Orion Chip
Post by: janekm on September 13, 2014, 03:58:22 pm
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?  :-//
Title: Re: Orion Chip
Post by: Zero999 on September 13, 2014, 04:26:15 pm
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?
Title: Re: Orion Chip
Post by: Jake86us on September 14, 2014, 10:16:20 pm
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!!
Title: Re: Orion Chip
Post by: miguelvp on September 15, 2014, 12:05:14 am
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 (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 (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.

Title: Re: Orion Chip
Post by: amyk on September 15, 2014, 10:23:14 am
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 (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 (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 (http://www.datasheet-pdf.com/datasheetdownload.php?id=499740). :)
Title: Re: Orion Chip
Post by: Jake86us on September 15, 2014, 11:57:16 am
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 (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 (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 (http://www.datasheet-pdf.com/datasheetdownload.php?id=499740). :)



I think it might be a nock-off of the hitachi HD614042!! Thanks guys for the help!!!
Title: Re: Orion Chip
Post by: N2IXK on September 15, 2014, 01:42:53 pm
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.