
1996 Dec 20
5
Philips Semiconductors
Product specification
Analog voice scrambler/descrambler
PCD4440T
6
PINNING INFORMATION
6.1
Pinning
6.2
Pin description
7
FUNCTIONAL DESCRIPTION
To provide privacy for the end user of a cordless telephone
set, the radio-link audio signal must be scrambled. In the
microphone of the handset and the incoming telephone
line audio path of the base unit a scrambler circuit has to
be implemented. Consequently the audio signal to the
telephone line and to the earpiece must be descrambled.
Both functions can be fulfilled by the PCD4440T by simply
inserting it in the audio path.
SYMBOL
PIN
TYPE
DESCRIPTION
serial clock line (I
2
C-bus)
serial data line (I
2
C-bus)
negative Supply
signal input
signal output
positive supply
oscillator input
slave address input (I
2
C-bus)
SCL
SDA
V
SS
IN
OUT
V
DD
OSCI
A0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
I
I
P
I
O
P
I
I
handbook, halfpage
1
2
3
4
8
7
6
5
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PCD4440T
A0
OSCI
SDA
VDD
OUT
IN
VSS
SCL
Fig.2 Pin configuration.
7.1
Scrambling
The PCD4440Taccomplishes this task by first filtering the
incoming signal, limiting the bandwidth to 3500 Hz. Then
the signal is split into a high (
>
f
s
) and a low (
<
f
s
) frequency
band. Both frequency bands are inverted and added again
to provide a single output signal. Values for 9 split
frequencies f
S
can be controlled by a scramble code table
in the microcontroller. Control of these split frequencies is
accomplished via the serial two-wire I
2
C-bus. In addition to
the split frequencies (f
s
), a transparent mode and mute
instruction can be selected (see Table 1).
Figure 3 shows the signal path for both bands. The lower
band path (on the left side of the diagram) operates on
frequencies f
≤
f
s
(Split Frequency), the upper band path
(on the right side) on frequencies f
≥
f
s
.
The input signal contains frequencies from f
1
up to f
2
.
In scrambling mode, the output signal is band limited from
f
l
(300 Hz) to f
h
(3500 Hz). In the left path, the input signal
is first limited to f
s
. The following modulator inverts the
lower band. f
l
is folded up to f
s
, f
s
down to f
l
. In general, an
input frequency f
in
is folded to f
out
= f
s
+ f
l
f
in
. Finally the
folded signal is band limited to f
s
again.
In the right path, the input signal is first limited to f
h
.
The following modulator inverts the upper band. f
s
is folded
up to f
h
, f
h
down to f
s
. In general, an input frequency f
in
is
folded to f
out
= f
s
+ f
h
f
in
. Finally, the folded signal is band
limited to f
h
again. In the last step, the bands are added
and buffered.
Because of the symmetry of the scrambling process,
descrambling is achieved by passing the signal through
another PCD4440T.
In the transparent mode, the input signal is band limited to
3500 Hz. Frequencies from 0 to 300 Hz are not filtered
out.