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Channel unit interface circuit

US4993063A · kind A · utility

66Cited by
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16Claims
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Key dates

Filing dateDec 27, 1988
Grant dateFeb 12, 1991
Priority date
Expiry dateDec 27, 2008

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04Q1/50
  • WIPO fieldTelecommunications
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A channel unit interface circuit for interconnecting a two-wire, bidirectional signal transmitting path and a four-wire signal transmitting path in a communication system includes a tip terminal transconductance amplifier driver, a ring terminal transconductance amplifier driver, a voice sense amplifier, a balance network, A/D signal processing circuit, D/A signal processing circuit, filter network, a voice codec/PCM filter, a channel logic circuit, and a DC-to-DC converter. The tip terminal transconductance driver is formed of a first switching operational amplifier, and the ring terminal transconductance driver is formed of a second switching operational amplifier. Each of the first and second switching operational amplifiers is formed of a low voltage transconductance amplifier, high voltage comparator, a filter network, and a feed forward compensation amplifier.

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