MT88L85
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Figure 8 - Description of Timing Events
EXPLANATION OF EVENTS
A) TONE BURSTS DETECTED, TONE DURATION INVALID, RX DATA REGISTER NOT UPDATED.
B) TONE #n DETECTED, TONE DURATION VALID, TONE DECODED AND LATCHED IN RX DATA REGISTER.
C) END OF TONE #n DETECTED, TONE ABSENT DURATION VALID, INFORMATION IN RX DATA REGISTER
RETAINED UNTIL NEXT VALID TONE PAIR.
D) TONE #n+1 DETECTED, TONE DURATION VALID, TONE DECODED AND LATCHED IN RX DATA REGISTER.
E) ACCEPTABLE DROPOUT OF TONE #n+1, TONE ABSENT DURATION INVALID, DATA REMAINS UNCHANGED.
F) END OF TONE #n+1 DETECTED, TONE ABSENT DURATION VALID, INFORMATION IN RX DATA REGISTER
RETAINED UNTIL NEXT VALID TONE PAIR.
EXPLANATION OF SYMBOLS
Vin DTMF COMPOSITE INPUT SIGNAL.
ESt EARLY STEERING OUTPUT. INDICATES DETECTION OF VALID TONE FREQUENCIES.
St/GT STEERING INPUT/GUARD TIME OUTPUT. DRIVES EXTERNAL RC TIMING CIRCUIT.
RX0-RX34-BIT DECODED DATA IN RECEIVE DATA REGISTER
b3 DELAYED STEERING IN STATUS REGISTER (BIT 3) INDICATES THAT VALID FREQUENCIES HAVE BEEN
PRESENT/ABSENT FOR THE REQUIRED GUARD TIME THUS CONSTITUTING A VALID SIGNAL. ACTIVE LOW
FOR THE DURATION OF A VALID DTMF SIGNAL.
b2 RECEIVE DATA REGISTER FULL (BIT 2) IN STATUS REGISTER INDICATES THAT VALID DATA IS IN THE RECEIVE
DATA REGISTER. THE BIT IS CLEARED AFTER THE STATUS REGISTER IS READ.
IRQ/CP INTERRUPT IS ACTIVE INDICATING THAT NEW DATA IS IN THE RX DATA REGISTER. THE INTERRUPT IS
CLEARED AFTER THE STATUS REGISTER IS READ.
tREC MAXIMUM DTMF SIGNAL DURATION NOT DETECTED AS VALID. TYPICALLY 20MS.
tREC MINIMUM DTMF SIGNAL DURATION REQUIRED FOR VALID RECOGNITION. TYPICALLY 40MS.
tID MINIMUM TIME BETWEEN VALID SEQUENTIAL DTMF SIGNALS. TYPICALLY 40MS.
tDO MAXIMUM ALLOWABLE DROPOUT DURING VALID DTMF SIGNAL. TYPICALLY 20MS.
tDP TIME TO DETECT VALID FREQUENCIES PRESENT.
tDA TIME TO DETECT VALID FREQUENCIES ABSENT.
tGTP GUARD TIME, TONE PRESENT.
tGTA GUARD TIME, TONE ABSENT.
applications, leaving R1 to be selected by the
designer. Different steering arrangements may be
used to select independent tone present (tGTP) and
tone absent (tGTA) guard times. This may be
necessary to meet system specifications which place
both accept and reject limits on tone duration and
interdigital pause. Guard time adjustment also allows
the designer to tailor system parameters such as
talk-off and noise immunity.
Increasing tREC improves talk-off performance since
it reduces the probability that tones simulated by
speech will maintain a valid signal condition long
enough to be registered. Alternatively, a relatively
short tREC with a long tDO would be appropriate for
extremely noisy environments where fast acquisition
time and immunity to tone drop-outs are required.
Design information for guard time adjustment is
shown in Figure 6. The receiver timing is shown in
Figure 7 with a description of the events in Figure 8.
Call Progress Filter
A call progress mode, using the MT88L85, can be
selected to allow the detection of various tones,
which identify the progress of a telephone call on the
network. The call progress tone input and DTMF
input are common, however, call progress tones can
only be detected when CP mode has been selected.
DTMF signals cannot be detected if CP mode has
been selected (see Table 7). Figure 10 indicates the
useful detect bandwidth of the call progress filter.
Frequencies presented to the input, which are within
the ‘accept’ bandwidth limits of the filter, are hard-
limited by a high gain comparator with the IRQ/CP
pin serving as the output. The square-wave output
obtained from the schmitt trigger can be analyzed by
a microprocessor or counter arrangement to
determine the nature of the call progress tone being
detected. Frequencies which are in the ‘reject’ area
will not be detected and consequently the IRQ/CP
pin will remain low.
DTMF Generator
The DTMF transmitter employed in the MT88L85 is
capable of generating all sixteen standard DTMF
tone pairs with low distortion and high accuracy. All
frequencies are derived from an external 3.579545
MHz crystal. The sinusoidal waveforms for the
individual tones are digitally synthesized by using
row and column programmable dividers and
switched capacitor D/A converters. The row and
column tones are mixed and filtered to provide a
DTMF signal with low total harmonic distortion and