Preliminary Information MT8843
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The diode bridge shown in Figure 3 half wave
rectifies a single ended ring signal. Full wave
rectification is achieved if the ringing is balanced. A
fraction of the ring voltage is applied to the TRIGin
input. When the voltage at TRIGin is above the
Schmitt trigger high going threshold VT+, TRIGRC is
pulled low as C3 discharges. TRIGout
stay s low as
long as the C3 voltage stays below the minimum
V
T+
.
In a CPE designed for CND/CNAM, TRIGout
high to
low transition may be used to interrupt or wake up
the microcontroller. The controller can thus be put
into sle ep mode to c o n se r v e po w e r.
Dual Tone Alert Signal Detect ion
According to SIN227 the Idle State Tone Alert Signal
allows more reliable detection of Caller Display
Service signals. The Idle State Tone Alert Signal
follows the line reversal and a silence period. The
characteristics of the BT’s idle state alerting tone is
shown in Table 1.
a. The off -ho ok s ig na l le ve l i s - 15 dB m to - 34 dB m pe r to ne to b e
specifie d in the BT C ID C W s pe c ifi ca tion in th e fut ur e .
b. The si gn al po wer i s e xp res s ed in dBm r ef ere nc ed to 600 ohm
at the CPE A/B (tip/r ing) int erf ace.
c. ASL = ac ti ve s pe ec h le ve l ex pressed in dB m r efe r en c ed to
600 oh m at th e C P E ti p/ r in g i nte rf a c e. The l ev el is m e as ur e d
according to method B of Recommendation P.56 "Objective
Measurem e nt of Activ e S pe e ch Level " pu bl is he d in th e CCI TT
Blue Book, volume V "Telephone Transmission Quality" 1989.
EPL (Equivalent Pe ak L evel) = ASL +11.7dB
d. SIN2 27 s ug ge s ts tha t the recogn it ion time sh ou ld be n ot less
than 20m s if both ton es a re de te cted.
Item BT Bellcore
Low tone
frequency
2130Hz ±1.1% 2130Hz± 0.5%
High tone
frequency
2750Hz±1.1% 2750Hz±0.5%
Received
signal level
-2dBV to -40dBV
per tone on-hook
a
(0.22dBm
b
to
-37.78dBm)
-14dBm to -32dBm
per tone off-hook
Signal reject
level
-46dBV
(-43.78dBm)
-45dBm
Signal level
differential
(twist)
up to 7dB up to 6dB
Unwanted
signals
<= -20dB
(300-3400Hz)
<= -7dBm ASL
c
near end speech
Duration 88ms to 110ms
d
75ms to 85ms
Speech
present
No Yes
Table 1. Dual Tone Alert Signal Ch arac teri stics
Bellcore specifies a similar dual tone alert signal
called CPE Alerting Signal (CAS) for use in off-hook
data transmission. Bellcore states that the CPE
should be able to detect, in the presence of voice,
the CPE Aler ti ng Si g nal.
The dual tone alert signal is separated into the high
and low tones with two bandpass filters. A detection
algorithm examines the two filter outputs to
determine the presence of a dual tone alert signal.
The ESt pin goes high when both tones are present.
Detect and non-detect guard times can be
implemented with external RC components. The
guard times improve detection performance by
rejecting signals of insufficient duration and masking
momentary detection dropout. StD is the guard time
qualified detector output.
• Dual Tone Detection Guard Time
When the dual tone alert signal is detected by the
CNIC2, ESt is pulled high. When the alerting signal
ceases to be detected, ESt goes low.
Figure 4 shows the relationship between the St/GT,
ESt and StD pins. It also shows the operation of a
guard time circuit. The guard time circuit improves
detection performance by rejecting detections of
insufficient duration and by allowing momentary ESt
dropouts once the duration criterion has been met.
The total recognition time is t
REC
= tGP + tDP, where
t
GP
is the tone present guard time and tDP is the tone
present detect time (refer to timing between ESt, St/
GT and StD in Figures 15 and 18).
The total tone absent time is t
ABS
= tGA + tDA, where
t
GA
is the tone absent guard time and tDA is the tone
absent detect time (refer to timing between ESt, St/
GT and StD in Figures 15 and 18).
Bellcore states that it is desirable for an off-hook
capable CPE to have a CAS detector on/off switch.
The switch was conceived so that a subscriber who
disconnects a service that relies on CAS detection
(e.g., CIDCW ), but retain s the CPE, can tu rn off the
detector and not be bothered by false detection.
SW1 in Figure 4 performs the above function. In the
B position, the comparator input, hence StD, is
always low. The CAS detector will not be enabled
and its output will not cause interrupts (except for the
system power up condition described in section
“Interrupt” on page 28’).
BT states that the idle state tone alert signal
recognition time should be no less than 20ms when