One Chip Servo System LSI for Home VCR

The home VCR is steadily gaining world-wide popu- larity with its high performance and low cost, and now is considered one of the most important home electronic appliances. Since the VCR employs a large number of electronic components, it tends to be quite complicated. To avoid this complication as well as to improve its performance and reliability, it's a must to simplify the circuits. The most effective way to achieve this is to reduce the number of components through extensive use of ICs in electronic circuits. Also this approach will be most effective for portable-type VCRs which must be of compact and light-weight design.