Call progress monitor circuitry and method for a communication system

• US 6,389,134 B1
• Filed: 03/04/1998
• Issued: 05/14/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 04/22/1997
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Silicon Laboratories Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Silicon Laboratories Incorporated
• Inventors: Scott, Jeffrey W., Welland, David R., Tuttle, George Tyson, Dupuis, Timothy J., Sooch, Navdeep S.
• Primary Examiner(s): Isen, Forester W.
• Assistant Examiner(s): SINGH, RAMNANDAN P
• Application Number:
  US09/035,779
• Time in Patent Office: 1,532 Days
• Field of Search: 379/100, 379/112, 379/386, 379/418, 379/457, 379/373, 379/252, 375/257, 375/219, 370/377, 341/143, 341/150, 341/144
• US Class Current: 379/373.01
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 25/0266 Arrangements for providing Galvanic isolation, e.g. by means of magnetic or capacitive coupling
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 25/06 Dc level restoring means; Bias distortion correction ; Decision circuits providing symbol by symbol detection
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 7/033 using the transitions of the received signal to control the phase of the synchronising-signal-generating means, e.g. using a phase-locked loop
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/573 Line monitoring circuits for detecting caller identification
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 11/06 Simultaneous speech and data transmission, e.g. telegraphic transmission over the same conductors
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 19/001 Current supply source at the exchanger providing current to substations
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 19/02 providing ringing current or supervisory tones, e.g. dialling tone or busy tone

Abstract

A call progress monitor circuit is disclosed for a digital DAA in which digital information is transmitted across an isolation barrier from phone line side circuitry to powered side circuitry. In particular, the call progress monitor circuit of the present invention converts oversampled digital transmit and receive data into analog transmit and receive signals and then combines them to produce a call progress signal that is provided to be fed to a speaker driver circuit. In addition, the call progress signal in one embodiment is filtered with a low pass filter. The call progress monitor circuit in one embodiment includes oversampled digital-to-analog converters, a summing circuit, and a low pass filter. Corresponding methods for monitoring the progress of a call utilizing oversampled digital transmit and receive signals are also disclosed.

Claims

1. A communication system, comprising:

phone line side circuitry that is capable of being coupled to phone lines;

powered side circuitry that is capable of being coupled to said phone line side circuitry through an isolation barrier; and

a call progress monitor circuit within said powered side circuitry coupled to oversampled digital transmit and receive data to provide a call progress signal.

2. The communication system of claim 1, wherein said call progress monitor circuit includes oversampled digital-to-analog converters that convert said oversampled digital transmit and receive data into an analog call progress signal.

3. The communication system of claim 2, wherein said call progress monitor circuit further includes a low pass filter coupled to filter said analog call progress signal.

4. The communication system of claim 2, wherein said phone line side circuitry includes an analog-to-digital converter that converts an analog receive signal to oversampled digital receive data for transmission across said isolation barrier.

5. The communication system of claim 4, wherein said powered side circuitry includes digital filters that convert said baseband digital transmit data to oversampled digital transmit data for transmission across said isolation barrier.

6. The communication system of claim 1, further comprising said isolation barrier coupled between said phone line circuitry and said powered circuitry.

7. The communication system of claim 6, wherein oversampled digital information is transmitted across said isolation barrier.

8. The communication system of claim 7, wherein said isolation barrier comprises one or more capacitors.

9. A method for monitoring call progress in a communication system that is capable of being coupled to phone lines, comprising:

coupling an isolation barrier between powered side circuitry and phone line side circuitry that is capable of being coupled to phone lines;

digitizing analog receive signals to produce oversampled digital receive data;

producing oversampled digital transmit data; and

monitoring said oversampled digital transmit and receive data to provide an analog call progress signal.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein said isolation barrier is capacitive.

11. The method of claim 9, wherein said monitor step includes utilizing oversampled digital-to-analog converters to convert said oversampled digital transmit and receive data into analog transmit and receive data and combining said analog transmit and receive data into an analog call progress signal.

12. The method of claim 11, further comprising filtering said analog call progress signal with a low pass filter and providing said filtered call progress signal to a speaker driver circuit.

13. A call progress monitor circuit within a communication system that is capable of being coupled to phone lines, comprising:

digital-to-analog converters coupled to oversampled digital transmit and receive data to produce analog transmit and receive signals; and

a summing circuit coupled to combine said analog transmit and receive signals and having an analog call progress signal as an output.

14. The call progress monitor circuit of claim 13, wherein digital-to-analog converters are oversampled 1-bit delta-sigma digital-to-analog converters.

15. The call progress monitor circuit of claim 13, further comprising a low pass filter coupled to said summing circuit to filter said analog call progress signal.

16. A method for monitoring call progress in a communication system that is capable of being coupled to phone lines, comprising:

converting oversampled digital transmit and receive data into analog transmit and receive signals; and

generating an analog call progress signal from said analog transmit and receive signals.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein said generating step comprises summing said analog transmit and receive signals to generate said analog call progress signal.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein said generating step further comprises filtering said analog call progress signal with a low pass filter.