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Lucent Technologies Inc.
Data Sheet
March 1997
L8551 Low-Power SLIC
Applications
(continued)
dc Applications
Battery Feed
The dc feed characteristic can be described by:
(
R
L
where:
I
L
= dc loop current.
V
T/R
= dc loop voltage.
|
V
BAT
|
= battery voltage magnitude.
V
OH
= overhead voltage. This is the difference between
the battery voltage and the open loop Tip/Ring
voltage.
R
L
= loop resistance, not including protection resistors.
R
P
= protection resistor value.
R
DC
= SLIC internal dc feed resistance.
The design begins by drawing the desired dc template.
An example is shown in Figure 26.
Notes: V
BAT
= –48 V; I
LIM
= 22 mA; R
DC1
= 115
.
12-3050 (C)
Figure 26. Loop Current vs. Loop Voltage
Starting from the on-hook condition and going through
to a short circuit, the curve passes through two regions:
Region 1: On-hook and low loop currents. The slope
corresponds to the dc resistance of the SLIC, R
DC1
(de-
fault is 110
typical). The open circuit voltage is the
battery voltage less the overhead voltage of the device,
V
OH
(default is 6.5 V typical). These values are suitable
for most applications, but can be adjusted if needed. For
more information, see the sections entitled Adjusting dc
Feed Resistance and Adjusting Overhead Voltage.
Region 2: Current limit. The dc current is limited to a val-
ue determined by external resistor R
PROG
. This region of
the dc template has a high resistance (10 k
).
Calculate the external resistor as follows:
R
PROG
(k
) = 1.67 I
LIM
(mA)
Overhead Voltage
In order to drive an on-hook ac signal, the SLIC must
set up the Tip and Ring voltage to a value less than the
battery voltage. The amount that the open loop voltage
is decreased relative to the battery is referred to as the
overhead voltage. Expressed as an equation,
V
OH
= |V
BAT
| – (V
PT
– V
PR
)
Without this buffer voltage, amplifier saturation will
occur and the signal will be clipped. The L7551 is auto-
matically set at the factory to allow undistorted on-hook
transmission of a 3.17 dBm signal into a 900
loop
impedance. For applications where higher signal levels
are needed, e.g., periodic pulse metering, the 2-wire
port of the SLIC can be programmed with pin DCR.
The drive amplifiers are capable of 4 Vrms minimum
(V
AMP
). Referring to Figure 27, the internal dc output
resitance in Tip or Ring has a worst-case value of
65
. This is equal to one-half the maximum dc feed
resistance. So, the maximum signal the device can
guarantee is:
=
Where R
P
is the series protection resistor (assume
20
), and R
S
is the worst case on resistance of the
L7581 solid-state switch which is 28
.Thus, R
P
+ R
S
<
48
allows 2.2 V
rms
metering signals. The next step is
to determine the amount of overhead voltage needed.
The peak voltage at output of Tip and Ring amplifiers is
related to the peak signal voltage by:
+
I
L
R
L
+
R
DC
+
2R
P
-----------------------------------
=
V
T/R
V
BAT
---------------------------------------------
V
OH
–
)
R
DC
R
×
L
2R
P
+
+
=
L
0
10
20
50
0
20
30
40
50
LOOP VOLTAGE (V)
30
40
10
1
10 k
I
LIM
–1
R
DC1
V
T/R
4 V
Z
T/R
2 R
P
R
S
65
+
+
)
+
----------------------------------------------------
Vamp = V
T/R
1
2 R
P
R
S
Z
T/R
65
+
+
)
Λ
Λ