Abstract: This interface circuit between a bidirectional line (Lg) and a telephone exchange includes a high frequency transformer (Tr) whose secondary (N2) is connected to said line through a detector circuit (DET) and whose primary (N1) is connected to the switching network of said telephone exchange and to a high frequency carrier source. The circuit further includes means for adjusting the impedances seen across the points where the telephone line is connected to the exchange, so as to meet specified values applicable to the particular location of the exchange. The impedance adaptation means include means (A1) for amplifying the line current variations seen at the center tap (K) of the high frequency transformer (Tr), addition means (.SIGMA.1) for adding the output from (A1) to the voice signal to be sent to the telephone line (Lg), and second amplification means (A2) responsive to the output from (.SIGMA.1) to drive said center tap (K).

Abstract: This specification describes a charge-transfer device transversal filter chip in which an input signal is fed in parallel into a number of channels the outputs of which are summed together to provide the desired transversal filter transfer function. Each channel contains an analog shift register, a signal splitter and a polarity selector. The shift registers are of unequal length to provide a different delay thru each channel. The signal splitter provides a plurality of signal paths thru each channel while the polarity selector determines whether a given path in a given channel is added or subtracted in the summation to determine the gain of the given channel in the summation.

Abstract: The underlying concept of the invention disclosed is the use of charge partitioning for providing a precision weighted tap in a bucket brigade circuit. At the drain node of a charge conducting element in a bucket brigade device, the signal path is split in half with a first half going to the source of a first FET and the second half going to the source of a second FET. The first and second FET devices have their associated overlap capacitances, transconductances and threshold voltages matched by virtue of their close proximity to one another on the semiconductor substrate so as to have matched charge transfer characteristics. The amplitude of the charge stored on the capacitor at the node is therefore divided into two parts, with one portion being transferred by the first FET device and the remaining portion being transferred by the second FET device. This simple circuit accomplishes a precise charge division for the charge entered into the bucket brigade circuit.

Abstract: An acoustic feedback control to be installed in every extension provided with a loud speaker and a microphone in a digital telephone system. Each extension is provided with a coder and a decoder of the syllabic compression type which therefore have quantizing steps varying with the voice level at the input of the transmission channels between two extensions. A comparator receives the step information from the coder and decoder and prevents the decoder step from increasing when the coder step exceeds the decoder step.