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THEORY OF OPERATION
The analog section of the DSP board contains the two stereo codecs (U503, U507) and their
associated analog input and output circuitry. Line 1 and 2 each have two inputs that are resis-
tively mixed and buffered through difference amplifiers (U529, U532). Each of the difference
amplifiers feed a channel of the volume control (U531) that in turn drives the two dual op-amps
(U501, U504) that convert the single ended signals to differential drive for the codec.
Mic in and Page in are balanced inputs, each driving an instrumentation amplifier (U537, U540).
These two channels each have a voltage regulator (U536, U539) that can be enabled by the
host to provide phantom power to external mics. The gain of the voltage regulator is controlled
by the host switching on analog switch sections (U541, U542, U543) that connect gain control
resistors. The range of gain is 0 to 60 dB in 10 dB increments.
The outputs of the instrumentation amplifiers are each served by ½ of an op amp (U538) to a
fixed DC offset of 2.5V to provide one half of the differential drive to the second codec. Each
channel is inverted by half of a dual op-amp (U505) to provide the second phase of differential
drive to the codec. Each of the four input channels is fed to a multiplexer (U535) that selects
one channel under host control for output as music on hold.
The four differential outputs of the codecs drive four identical circuits built around switchable
amplifiers (U509, U510, U511, U512). One differential input of each is configured as a low-pass
filter and differential to single ended converter and is fed from a codec output. The second input
is connected to a common input signal, the direct input. A PNP transistor circuit (Q502) detects
ground on the PTT input and switches the switchable amplifiers to the direct input while also
signaling the PIC to inform the host that an override is occurring. The four switchable amplifiers
drive the power amplifier inputs from the selected input signal path.
The outputs from the switchable amplifiers also drive four channels of amplitude sense circuitry.
Each sense path consists of an op-amp gain stage followed by a low pass filter, a high pass
filter and a precision rectifier/average circuit. The op-amps are contained in dual op-amps
(U700, U706) and quad op-amps (U702, U703, U704, U705).
3. LED Board
The LED board contains the front panel indicator LEDs and the standby switch. Power is applied
to this board even when the unit is in standby and is regulated to 5V by U105 voltage regulator
and to 3.3V by U107 voltage regulator. Serial input from the host on the DSP board drives a
sequence of three serial in, parallel out shift registers (U102, U103, U104) to drive the LEDs.
To reduce power consumption three inverters from U101 are configured as an oscillator to
multiplex the LED drive. Two more of the inverters are used to buffer and debounce the standby
switch. When the standby button is pushed the signal is detected by the PIC processor on the
DSP board, which then communicates over the I2C bus with the host processor.
4. Auto-volume Microphone Sense Board
The auto-volume microphone sense board contains the input and level control circuitry for four
sense mics and an RS-232 connector to allow the 4400 system to communicate with an exter-
nal PC. Power is not applied to this board when the unit is in standby. The board regulates
analog power supply voltages with a positive 15V regulator (U216) and a negative 15V regulator
(U215). There is also a positive 8V regulator (U204) to provide power to the external sense
mics.
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