AY-3-8500

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Programmable Sound Generator

Family

Family chips table
chip Year Derived from Package Notes
AY-3-8500
AY-3-8500-1
1976 DIP28-600mil 4 Ball & Paddle games and 2 shooting games
AY-3-8510 1978? AY-3-8500 DIP16-mil300 4 Ball & Paddle games in color
AY-3-8512 1978? AY-3-8510 DIP16-mil300 Ball & Paddle games in color with two target shooting games
AY-3-8515
AY-3-8515-1
1976? Color picture encoder for the AY-3-8500
AY-3-8550
AY-3-8550-1
1976 AY-3-8500 4 Ball & Paddle games and 2 shooting games with horizontal player motion
AY-3-8600
AY-3-8600-1
1977 8 Ball & Paddle games
AY-3-8601
AY-3-8601-1
1976 Square Off: Combat Squares, Racing Squares, Shooting Squares, 2 Jungle Games (supposedly unreleased)
AY-3-8602
AY-3-8602-1
1976 Volleyball Plus: Volleyball, Protection, Hazard (supposedly unreleased)
AY-3-8603
AY-3-8603-1
1976 Roadrace: Two car racing games
AY-3-8604
AY-3-8604-1
197? Barricade (2-player Snakes game)
AY-3-8605
AY-3-8605-1
1977 3 submarine war games
AY-3-8606
AY-3-8606-1
1977 10 breakout games
AY-3-8607
AY-3-8607-1
1977 Target shooting games
AY-3-8610
AY-3-8610-1
1977 AY-3-8600 8 Ball & Paddle games with 2 target shooting games
AY-3-8615
AY-3-8615-1
1976 Color picture encoder for the AY-3-8600
AY-3-8650
AY-3-8650-1
1976 Advanced controls and options when used with AY-3-8600
AY-3-8700
AY-3-8710 (PAL)
1976 DIP28-mil600 Tank battle game
AY-3-8760
AY-3-8765 (PAL)
1976 DIP28-mil600 4 motor-cycle games: Skill cycle, Cycle race...
AY-3-8800
Ay-3-8800-1
1976 4 games: Black Jack, Draw Poker, Acey/Ducey and WAR
AY-3-8888
Ay-3-8888-1
1976 2 Vegas games: Black Jack and Slot Machine
AY-3-8889
Ay-3-8889-1
1976 Tic-Tac-Toe and LEM (Lunar Landing Module)

Pinout

AY-3-8910
DIP40
        +---\/---+
Vss(GND)| 1    40| Vcc (+5V)
     NC | 2    39| TEST 1
AN.CH.B | 3    38| AN.CH.C
AN.CH.A | 4    37| DA0
     NC | 5    36| DA1
   IOB7 | 6    35| DA2
   IOB6 | 7    34| DA3
   IOB5 | 8    33| DA4
   IOB4 | 9    32| DA5
   IOB3 |10    31| DA6
   IOB2 |11    30| DA7
   IOB1 |12    29| BC1
   IOB0 |13    28| BC2
   IOA7 |14    27| BDIR
   IOA6 |15    26| TEST 2
   IOA5 |16    25| A8
   IOA4 |17    24| *A9
   IOA3 |18    23| *RESET
   IOA2 |19    22| CLOCK
   IOA1 |20    21| IOA0
        +--------+


AY-3-8912
DIP28
          +---\/---+
  AN.CH.C | 1    28| DA0
   TEST 1 | 2    27| DA1
Vcc (+5V) | 3    26| DA2
  AN.CH.B | 4    25| DA3
  AN.CH.A | 5    24| DA4
Vss (GND) | 6    23| DA5
     IOA7 | 7    22| DA6
     IOA6 | 8    21| DA7
     IOA5 | 9    20| BC1
     IOA4 |10    19| *BC2
     IOA3 |11    18| BDIR
     IOA2 |12    17| A8
     IOA1 |13    16| *RESET
     IOA0 |14    15| CLOCK
          +--------+

Frequency

AY-3-8910
Set reader to FREQ, put black probe to GND, red probe to 22 to measure CPU clock

AY-3-8912
Set reader to FREQ, put black probe to GND, red probe to 15 to measure CPU clock

External links

AY-3-8910 page on Wikipedia

Files