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Revision as of 17:39, 1 October 2020

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Yamaha
Founded: 1887-08-12
Headquarters:
Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan

The Yamaha Corporation (Japanese: ヤマハ株式会社; Romaji: Yamaha Kabushikigaisha) is a Japanese company with a large number of product areas. Sales offerings include motorcycles (Yamaha Motor Corporation), musical instruments, integrated circuits, and home electronics. It was founded by Torakusu Yamaha as Nippon Gakki Co., Ltd. (Japanese: 日本楽器製造株式会社; Romaji: Nippon Gakki Seizou Kabushikigaisha) in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka prefecture. Yamaha acquired Korg in 1989.

Yamaha has produced many of the integrated circuit chips for Sega arcade and console hardware, such as the YM2612 sound chip for the Sega Mega Drive console. Yamaha held the patent for FM synthesis, which was featured in many Yamaha synthesizers and sound chips, while some of their sound chips also featured PCM sampling. In addition, Yamaha also manufactured VDP graphics processors for the Sega Master System and Mega Drive consoles.

Hardware produced

Consoles

Integrated circuits

Sound chips

Sound chip Year Max
channels
FM synthesis SSG PCM sampling Systems
Operators Max channels Max ops/channel Channels Max channels Depth (bit) Max sample rate (Hz)
Yamaha YM2151 1983 8 32 8 4 0 0 N/A N/A Arcade (Sega System series), Sharp X68000
Yamaha YM2203 1984 6 12 3 4 3 0 N/A N/A Arcade (Sega Hang-On hardware)
Yamaha YM2413 1986 11 12 11 2 0 0 N/A N/A Mark III (FM Sound Unit), Master System (JP), MSX
Yamaha YM2612 1988 6 24 6 4 0 1 8 44,100 Mega Drive, Arcade (Sega System series)
Yamaha YMFA1005 (Sega MultiPCM) 1992 28 0 0 N/A 0 28 16 44,100 Arcade (System Multi 32, Model 1, Model 2)
Saturn Custom Sound Processor (SCSP / YMF292) 1994 32 32 32 6 0 32 16 44,100 Saturn, Arcade (ST-V, Model 2, Model 3)
Yamaha Super Intelligent Sound Processor (AICA) 1998 64 0 0 N/A 0 64 16 48,000 Dreamcast, Arcade (Sega NAOMI series)

VDP

Video Display Processor (VDP) Year Data bus width Pixel clock rate Resolution Palette Colors on screen Sprites on screen Colors per sprite BG tile planes Sega systems
Yamaha YM2602 (Sega 315‑5124) 1985 16-bit 5,369,318 Hz 256×224 pixels 64 colors 32 64 15 1 Mark III, Master System, Arcade (System E)
Yamaha YM7101 (Sega 315‑5313) 1988 16-bit 6,711,647 Hz 320×448 pixels 1536 colors 183 80 15 3 Mega Drive, Arcade (Mega-Tech System, System C, Mega Play, System 32)

Softography

Pico

Gallery

External links

References