
Preliminary Data Sheet
June 1997
T7230A Primary Access Framer/Controller
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Signaling Access
Signaling information can be accessed by three different methods: transparently through the CHI, through the
control registers, or through the CHI associated signaling mode.
Transparent Signaling (TSIG = 1)
Data at the received DRA and DRB interface passes through the T7230A undisturbed. The system is responsible
for placing (inserting) the signaling information in the appropriate time slot and frames. The T7230A generates a
signaling multiframe in the transmit and receive direction to facilitate the access of signaling information at the sys-
tem interface.
Microprocessor Control Registers
The information written into the F and G bits of the transmit signaling control registers define the robbed-bit signal-
ing mode for each channel for both the transmit and receive directions (TSIG = 0) in the T1 framing formats. The
per-channel programming allows the system to mix voice channels with data channels within the same frame. Note
that a receive-channel robbed-bit signaling mode is defined by the state of the F and G bits in the transmit signaling
control registers for that channel.
The microprocessor transmit signaling registers may be used in the associated signaling mode. In this mode (TSR-
ASM mode), the system writes into the F and G bits
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of the transmit signaling registers to program the robbed-bit
signaling state mode of each transmit and received DS0. This mode is enabled by programming PR10, bit 5 to 1 in
any DS1 mode.
In the common channel signaling mode, data written in the transmit signaling registers is transmitted in channel 24
of the transmit line bit stream. The F and G bits are ignored in this mode. The received signaling data from channel
24 in T1 format or channel 16 in CEPT format, is stored in the receive signaling registers (RS0—RS23 for T1;
RS0—RS16 for CEPT).
1. All other bits in the signaling registers are ignored, while the F and G bits in the received DR stream are ignored.