TMS5220

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TMS5220
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Developer: Texas Instruments
Released: 1980-??-??
Type: Chip

The TMS5220 is a collection of audio chips designed and sold by Texas Instruments specifically designed to mimic human speech. Speech data is stored through pitch-excited linear predictive coding (PE-LPC), where words are created by a lattice filter, selectably fed by either an excitation ROM (containing a glottal pulse waveform) or an LFSR (linear feedback shift register) noise generator. Linear predictive coding achieves a vast reduction in data volume needed to recreate intelligible speech data.

The TMS5220 had the same pinout as the earlier TMS5200, but it used a new LPC tables breaking backward compatibility.

Versions

TMS5220

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The TMS5220, released in 1980, was used in several home computer peripherals and arcade games. Uses the 'final' chirp table. HP 82967A Speech synthesis module, adding 1500-word vocabulary to Series 80 computers. It was made until around 1983 when it was replaced by the TMS5220C.

TMS5220C

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The TMS5220C, released in 1983, was an improved TMS5220. It reworked the two NOP (No Operation) commands and the parallel FIFO interface to allow for variable-speed speech and was fully compatible with the TMS5220. Those chips produced after 1985 used the number "TSP5220C". It was made until the early 1990s.

Devices

Release Company Device Chip
1983-??-?? Texas Instruments TI 99/4A (Possibly in last model) TMS5220
198?-??-?? Street Electronics Echo II TMS5220
1981-??-?? Acorn Computers BBC Micro models A, B and B+ TMS5220
198?-??-?? IBM Speech Adapter TMS5220C
198?-??-?? Pacific Educational Systems Unknown speech device TMS5220C

Games

The TMS5220 was used in over 30 arcade machines, particularly by Atari and Zaccaria.

Release Game Chip
1982-??-?? Looping (ARC) TMS5220
1982-??-?? Sky Bumper (ARC) TMS5220
1982-??-?? Victor Banana (ARC) TMS5220
1982-??-?? Victory (ARC) TMS5220
1983-??-?? Farfalla (PBL) TMS5220
1983-??-?? NFL Football (ARC) TMS5220
1983-??-?? Portraits (ARC) TMS5220
1983-??-?? Star Wars (ARC) TMS5220
1983-??-?? Time Machine (PBL) TMS5220
1984-??-?? Devil Riders (PBL) TMS5220
1984-??-?? Firefox (ARC) TMS5220
1984-??-?? Magic Castle (PBL) TMS5220
1984-??-?? Paperboy (ARC) TMS5220C
1984-??-?? Return of the Jedi (ARC) TMS5220
1985-10-?? Gauntlet (ARC) TMS5220C
1985-??-?? Clown (PBL) TMS5220
1985-??-?? The Empire Strikes Back (ARC) TMS5220
1985-??-?? Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (ARC) TMS5220C
1985-??-?? Pool Champion (PBL) TMS5220
1985-??-?? Road Runner (ARC) TMS5220
1985-??-?? Robot (PBL) TMS5220
1986-??-?? 720° (ARC) TMS5220C
1986-??-?? Blackbelt (PBL) TMS5220
1986-??-?? Gauntlet II (ARC) TMS5220C
1986-??-?? Mexico '86 (PBL) TMS5220
1986-??-?? Zankor (PBL) TMS5220
1987-??-?? A.P.B. (ARC) TMS5220C
1987-??-?? RoadBlasters (ARC) TMS5220C
1987-??-?? Spooky (PBL) TMS5220
1988-??-?? Vindicators: Part II (ARC) TMS5220C
1989-??-?? Escape From the Planet of the Robot Monsters (ARC) TMS5220C

Picture Gallery

Downloads

Document Download
TMS5220 Manual Download - (info)
TMS5220C Manual Download - (info)

Emulation Status

Both the TMS5220 and TMS5220C have been emulated by MAME.

Links