Abstract: A code detector for detecting the presence or absence of particular binary digital signalling codes in the digital bit stream from extension telephones of a digital PABX telephone system. The detector is connected to a telephone being monitored and receives digital data from the telephone, which data may be random speech data or a signalling code. The detector consists essentially of a ROM which uses each of the data bits arriving in serial form as the least significant bits of the address for a micro-program stored in the ROM which provides the other address bits, thus causing the program to be stepped through a sequence of addresses which depend upon the sequence of the incoming data bits. For a program to end up at a specified address the ROM must receive the code which is unique in causing the program to arrive at that address. The detector then outputs a code representative of the detected code.