Abstract:
A PCM/TDM terminal has m parallel receiving lines and m parallel transmitting lines for recurrent sequences of n words, of m bits each, originating at or destined for n channels connectable to that terminal by way of two alternately operating conversion units. Each conversion unit comprises an orthogonal matrix of m.n register stages for individual bits, divided into m columns and n rows, the first unit communicating with the channels while the second unit communicates with the terminal and vice versa. In an alternation of switching phases whose duration equals the time period occupied by an m-bit word serially arriving or departing over any channel, the unit communicating with the channels has its n row inputs and its n row outputs respectively connected to the incoming and outgoing channel branches while the unit communicating with the terminal has its m column inputs and its m column outputs respectively connected to the transmitting and receiving terminal lines. Thus, in a first phase the first unit stores in its n rows the bits of as many words arriving over the incoming channel branches and, simultaneously, reads out to the outgoing channel branches the bits of n words previously receiving from the terminal; at the same time the second unit stores in its m columns the bits of n successive words coming from the terminal and reads out to the terminal the bits of as many words previously fed in by the channels. In a second phase the roles of the two units are reversed.
Abstract:
An optical switching system, wherein the input channels (I) carrying packetized data are switched one by one at high bit rate to output channels (O) through an optical switching network (RC). The packets of a generic input channel are time compressed, converted into optical signals and, at suitable instants, sent to an optical switching network to be switched to the desired output channel, they are then reconverted into electrical signals and expanded to their original duration. A centralized processor (EL) controls the channel switching through the switching network by means of a driving circuit (LC).
Abstract:
A circuit arrangement for emitting ringing signals to a subscriber station in response to a call signal electronically generated at a telephone exchange comprises a control unit which, in the presence of such call signal, intermittently reverses a switching relay normally connecting the talking conductors of the subscriber line to monitoring equipment of the exchange whereby these conductors periodically receive a high-voltage ringing current, e.g. of 25 Hz, from a local oscillator in series with a d-c supply. The direct current is blocked by a line-terminating capacitor until the called subscriber lifts the receiver off the hook to close the line loop. If this occurs while the line is connected to the oscillator, a sensor in the control unit detects a significant disparity between the durations of the positive and negative voltage swings in an oscillator cycle and causes the release of the switching relay when that disparity exceeds a dynamic threshold determined by the actual cycle length.
Abstract:
An electronic circuit apt to detect the lifting of a telephone handset in presence of ringing current, which is capable of detecting small variations of the d.c. current flowing through the line loop in presence of high a.c. current.It carries out the multiplication of the line current by a constant value and by a pulse signal with suitable frequency and pulse duration; it integrates said current over one or more periods of the ringing signal and compares it with pre-determined thresholds.This circuit allows the use of a single low-value capacitor and is easy-to-integrate.
Abstract:
The two talking wires of a line loop extending from a subscriber station to a central office, provided with respective blocking capacitors, are connected on the subscriber side of these blocking capacitors to respective signal detectors fed from a common battery and cross-coupled by a common compensating capacitor. The two signal detectors receive outgoing signals from the central-office equipment via a common photoelectric coupler and transmit incoming signals to that equipment by way of respective bistable threshold comparators and individal photoelectric couplers. The two signal detectors with their threshold comparators are constituted in integrated circuity by mutually complementary transistors and diodes together with associated resistors.
Abstract:
An electronic circuit for detecting the lifting of a telephone handset in the presence of ringing current, which is capable of detecting small variations of the d.c. current flowing through the line loop in the presence of high a.c. current. The circuit carries out the multiplication of the line current by a constant value and by a pulse signal with suitable frequency and pulse duration, it integrates the current over one or more periods of the ringing signal and compares it with predetermined thresholds. The circuit allows the use of a single low value capacitor and is easy to integrate.
Abstract:
An electronic circuit apt to detect the lifting of a telephone handset in presence of ringing current, which is capable of detecting small variations of the d.c. current flowing through the line loop in presence of high a.c. current.It carries out the multiplication of the line current by a constant value and by a pulse signal with suitable frequency and pulse duration; it integrates said current over one or more periods of the ringing signal and compares it with pre-determined thresholds.This circuit allows the use of a single low-value capacitor and is easy-to-integrate.