1997 Sep 29 8
Philips Semiconductors Product specification
Line interrupter driver and ringer UBA1702; UBA1702A
MUTE SWITCH AND ZENER PROTECTION
(PINS MSI, MSA AND ZPA)
The mute switch is, in fact, a switchable and electronic
zener diode connected between the speech part output
(pin SPO) and VEE.
When the voltage applied at the mute switch input
(pin MSI) is LOW, the switch is in over-voltage protection
mode and the maximum SPO voltage is limited to 12 V.
This level can be increased or decreased by connecting a
resistor between pins ZPA (zener protection adjustment)
and VEE or ZPA and SPO respectively.
When the voltage applied at pin MSI is HIGH, the switch is
in mute mode (DMO or NSA) resulting in a SPO voltage
below 3 V. This level can be decreased by connecting a
resistor between pins MSA (mute switch adjustment) and
SPO. It should be noted that the mute switch stage is
supplied from VDD thus a minimum voltage of
approximately 2.1 V is required on VDD.
R
EFERENCE
The bias currents and voltages for the various speech
blocks are generated by the reference block which is, in
most cases, supplied from pin SPO. This block guarantees
a high AC impedance at the SPO pin operating down to a
low SPO voltage. Therefore, most speech part blocks
operate independently from VDD.
Ringer part
The ringer part consists of five blocks, the ringer
protection, the ringer threshold, the ringer frequency
detection, the volume control and the piezo driver.
The reference block which generates reference voltages
and currents is also used in the ringer part (see Fig.1).
R
INGER PROTECTION (PINS RPI AND V
RR
)
The ringer protection block converts the ringing current
into a limited voltage between the ringer part input
(pin RPI) and V
EE
. This voltage is used (via an internal
diode) to generate the ringer supply voltage VRR which is
mainly used for all ringer parts. The voltage at pin V
RR
must be filtered with a 22 µF capacitor connected between
pins VRR and VSS.
In electronic hook switch applications and also in speech
mode (see Fig.8), pin RPI is always connected to the
telephone line (through a series RC network and a diode
bridge). In order not to disturb normal speech operation, a
high AC impedance is present at pin RPI (providing the
speech level is less than 1.5 V (RMS) i.e. 5.7 dBm).
In the DMO or NSA mode (i.e. MSI is HIGH), the voltage
across RPI and V
EE
is limited to 2.1 V. With this feature
and in electronic hook switch applications, several
additional ringers can be placed in parallel without tinkling
during pulse dialling phase.
R
INGER THRESHOLD (PIN RTA)
The piezo driver is internally enabled when the voltage at
pin VRR exceeds a threshold level of 11 V. This threshold
level can be increased or decreased by connecting a
resistor between pins RTA (ringer threshold adjustment)
and V
SS
or RTA and VRR respectively.
Because of the built-in 6.5 V hysteresis, a voltage change
at pin VRR (coming from current consumption increase
when the piezo output is driven with a melody) will have no
influence on this internal enabling signal.
R
INGER FREQUENCY DETECTION (PIN RFO)
The ringer frequency detection block generates a square
wave signal at the ringer frequency output (pin RFO) with
twice the ringer signal frequency. This RFO signal can be
used by the microcontroller for frequency discrimination.
When the voltage at pin RPI drops below the voltage at
pin VDD, RFO goes LOW. Pin RFO goes HIGH when the
voltage at pin RPI exceeds the voltage at pin VRR.
This VRR− VDD hysteresis allows the frequency detection
circuit to ignore parasitic signals superimposed on the
ringing signal.
The voltage at pin EHI must be LOW to get a square wave
at pin RFO. When the voltage at pin EHI is LOW, the
voltage at pin RFO is always HIGH whatever the one at pin
RPI is.
V
OLUME CONTROL (PINS RV0, RV1 AND RV2)
The volume control input has three bits RV2, RV1 and RV0
to realize eight volume levels. The volume is controlled by
regulating the supply voltage of the piezo output stage.
The first six steps have a fixed value of 6 dB, the value of
the last step (maximum volume) is dependent on the
available voltage at pin VRR.
Default setting during start-up is (RV2 = 0, RV1 = 0,
RV0 = 0) which corresponds to minimum volume. In order
not to damage the piezo transducer, the differential output
ROA − ROB is internally limited to a value less than
32 V (p-p).