PSG

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Various PSGs were used in the Intellivision from the AY-3-891x family, including the AY-3-8914, AY-3-8916 and AY-3-8917.

The text below is just a bunch of notes for now, to be organized into something meaningful eventually.

Clock speed is 3579545/16 (223721.5625 Hz)

Registers

Channels

square wave output optionally modified by the envelope generator and/or the noise generator Volume (0-15) Period (1-4096) Tone Enabled Envelope Enabled Noise Enabled

16 volume levels, independent to each channel


Envelope Generator

Period Atak, Cont, Hold, Altr Volume (0-15) 16-bit period value multiplied by two, from 2 PSG clock cycles to $20000


Noise Generator

The random noise generator adheres to the following formula once per PSG clock cycle.

   noise = (noise >> 1) ^ ((noise & 1) ? 0x14000 : 0);

The lowest bit resulting from this calculation is used to add noise to any channel with noise enabled.