Holtek Semiconductor HT36A0
The HT36A0 is an 8-bit high performance RISC-like microcontroller specifically designed for music applications. It provides an 8-bit MCU and a 16 channel wavetable synthesizer. The program ROM is composed of both program control codes and wavetable voice codes, and can be easily programmed.FEATURES
● Operating voltage: 3.6V~5.0V● Operating frequency: 3.58MHz~12MHz
● Polyphonic up to 16 notes
● Independent pan and volume mix can be assigned to (typ. 11.059MHz)
● 28 bidirectional I/O lines
● Two 16-bit programmable timer/event counters with each sound component
● Sampling rate of 44.1kHz as 11.059MHz for system frequency
● Eight-level subroutine nesting
● HALT function and wake-up feature to reduce power overflow interrupts
● Watchdog Timer
● Built-in 8-bit MCU with 208´8 bits RAM
● Built-in 64K´16-bit ROM for program/data shared
● Digital output pins for external DAC
● Single data format with 16 bits digital stereo audio consumption
● Bit manipulation instructions
● 16-bit table read instructions
● 63 powerful instructions
● All instructions in 1 or 2 machine cycles
● 48-pin SSOP package output
● Two High D/A converter resolution: 16 bits
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
The HT36A0 has a built-in 8-bit microprocessor which programs the synthesizer to generate the melody by setting the special register from 20H~2AH.