HT9170
Functional Description
Overview
Steering control circuit
The HT9170 series tone decoders consist of
three band pass filters and two digital decode
circuits to convert a tone (DTMF) signal into
digital code output.
The steering control circuit is used for measur-
ing the effective signal duration and for protect-
ing against drop out of valid signals. It employs
the analog delay by external RC time-constant
controlled by EST.
An operational amplifier is built-in to adjust
the input signal (refer to Figure 2).
The timing is shown in Figure 3. The EST pin is
normally low and draws the RT/GT pin to keep
low through discharge of external RC. When a
valid tone input is detected, EST goes high to
charge RT/GT through RC.
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When the voltage of RT/GT changes from 0 to
VTRT (2.35V for 5V supply), the input signal is
effective, and the correct code will be created by
the code detector. After D0~D3 are completely
latched, DV output becomes high. When the
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voltage of RT/GT falls down from VDD to VTRT
(i.e.., when there is no input tone), DV output
becomes low, and D0~D3 keeps data until a
next valid tone input is produced.
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By selecting adequate external RC value, the min-
imum acceptable input tone duration (tACC) and
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the minimum acceptable inter-tone rejection (tIR
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can be set. External components (R, C) are chosen
by the formula (refer to Figure 5.):
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ACC=tDP+tGTP;
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IR=tDA+tGTA
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Figure 2. Input operation for amplifier applica-
tion circuits
where tACC: Tone duration acceptable time
tDP: EST output delay time (²L²®²H²)
The pre-filter is a band rejection filter which re-
duces the dialing tone from 350Hz to 400Hz.
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GTP: Tone present time
IR: Inter-digit pause rejection time
The low group filter filters low group frequency
signal output whereas the high group filter fil-
ters high group frequency signal output.
tDA: EST output delay time (²H²®²L²)
GTA: Tone absent time
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Each filter output is followed by a zero-crossing
detector with hysteresis. When each signal am-
plitude at the output exceeds the specified
level, it is transferred to full swing logic signal.
When input signals are recognized to be effec-
tive, DV becomes high, and the correct tone
code (DTMF) digit is transferred.
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December 20, 1999